Reaction time (All the good names are taken (sigh))

by spart1339

Spart, having seen the future of the RWBY decides that a change is needed and wishes to bring in that change. So, he brings RWBY, JNPR, Beacon teachers and parents to change their fates and to show them the multiverse of Jaune Arc. From hero to villain, hunter to humble shop owner, secret agent to ladies man. The realities of Jaune Arc are infinite.

7. Chapter 7

A/N: Here is the next chapter in Reaction Time. Sorry for the long wait, I had college classes and my job that took up my time and left me not a lot of time to write. Not to mention being drained of creativity and encountering a writer's block on some of the reactions.

Also thank you to everyone for liking this story and for their suggestions. Lots of good ones that I'll try to get too. But no promises, you are welcome to send me suggestions and I'll look at them. Also I've noticed that I call Oobleck by his last name in some chapter and his first name in some. The same with Peter. My bad, I'm gonna try and stick to their first names from here on out. And I called Pyrrha's head piece a tiara when it's clearly a circlet, my bad.

Again, line breaks represent a scene change

Also there is a troll in the comments that has been trying to goad me. Ignore him and all other future trolls. That's what I do.

Anyway let's get started. All mistakes are mine and mine alone.

Inspiration: Zootopia

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It can be said that everyone who just saw the Alien universe wasn't expecting to see a full-size scale replica of the xenomorph, face hugger, and the chest burster waiting for them as they left the theater. Ruby certainly wasn't and screamed when she saw them. Thinking they were real and going to attack her. Once they saw the replicas were just that, replicas, they decided to closer inspect them.

"Remarkable…" Oobleck said while examining the egg. Making sure to take detailed notes.

"Disgusting. More like." Goodwitch seeing the veins on the inside of the egg. She had seen all manner of Grimm, but this unnerved her.

"You need to expand your horizons, Glynda." Oobleck told her continuing to examine the egg.

Meanwhile, Summer and Ruby are looking at the space suits. They are big and bulky, they see a button next to the suit and decide to press it. A flash of light engulfed them and they now wore the suit.

"It's hard to move around in." Summer said, her voice slightly muffled but Ruby is able to hear her clearly thanks to the built-in radio.

"They need a cooling fan or something." Ruby said forming a fist as best she could.

"I think they're designed with the purpose of function over form." Tai said looking at them in the suits.

"How do we get out of them?" Ruby asked not sure how to even remove the suit.

"Maybe press the button again?" Yang suggested. Summer and Ruby decided to walk around to get a feel for the suits before pressing the button again. As they moved the heat in the suits slowly built up and slowly cooled down, thanks to the built-in cooling unit that only activated when the interior suit temperature reached a certain temp.

Jaune and the others looked at the various technology with interest.

While that was going on, Raven was looking at the fully grown xenomorph with interest. She had seen what the creature is capable of and wondered how difficult they would be to fight in a head on fight.

"New husband?" Qrow asked standing behind her.

"It's more your type." Raven responded opening the mouth to better see the inner mouth. "What do you want?"

"Are you going to talk to Yang?" Qrow asked looking at the body structure of the alien.

"No." Raven stated looking at the teeth. She wondered if she could make a mask inspired from the alien.

"I know better than to ask why." Qrow said turning to leave.

"Good." Raven said going back to examining the alien as Qrow left her alone.

Coco looked at the replica of the face hugger, she didn't want to touch it and opted for looking at it from a distance. She half expected it to start moving and leap at her. She wondered what Kane felt when it attached itself to his face. Did he feel pain? Or was he already unconscious when it forced the tube down his throat and impregnated him.

She looked at Velvet and saw her chewing her lip as she watched Jaune fiddle with some of the tech. Velvet looked her way and Coco gave her a thumbs up. She watched as Velvet went to Jaune and the two went to private room. She wished her friend luck and decided to move on to a different area. Maybe the suits.

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Jaune heard the door close behind and he already figured that Velvet wanted to discuss her feelings towards him.

"Jaune, I take it Pyrrha told you about us?" Velvet asked. Jaune looked at Velvet and saw that she is playing with her hands and looking nervous, her ears are drooped.

"Yeah." Jaune said with a nervous that made Velvet feel better. "I still find it hard to believe. I mean you're beautiful."

"That doesn't mean much when you're a faunus." Velvet said making her ears droop even more. "Our options are kind of limited to other faunus or the very rare non-racist human."

"Is that you like me?" Jaune asked curious. "Because I'm not biased against the faunus?"

"No!" Velvet immediately yelled, her ears stood straight. "That's not the reason. Do you remember that night in the library?"

Jaune remembered that night. He was up late studying for an exam in the library. It was there that he had his first real interaction with Velvet.

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Jaune was tired, he spent the past hour taking notes and reading everything he could about the theories of Grimm for Professor's Port class. Turns out his class wasn't just telling stories and an excuse to sleep; the man also taught some things that would help them. And now the class has an upcoming quiz that would test their knowledge of everything he taught them.

Since he didn't go to a combat school, he didn't have the best knowledge when it came to the Grimm. His knowledge came down to: Grimm bad and hunt by negative emotions or aura depending on the book. So, he had to learn an entire combat school worth of Grimm studies, which is about six years in two weeks. This is why he's currently in the library at 1 in the morning reading a thick book about Grimm.

"I'm gonna be sleep deprived for a week." Jaune said to himself while stretching to keep himself awake.

"I know the feeling." A female voice said behind him.

Jaune turned around and saw a second year holding a book close to her chest. He had seen her around but never got her name, from what he saw she is shy and tends to hang out with her team.

"Any tips?" Jaune asked hoping that she had some helpful tips.

"Don't overdo it." She said.

"You're the one Cardin and his team bullied." Jaune said remembering the day in the cafeteria. The girl visibly shrunk a bit when Cardin was brought up. "I'm sorry if I brought back unpleasant memories." He quickly said.

"Thank you, it's not the first time." She said in a quiet voice that Jaune almost didn't hear her.

"Would you like to sit. I wouldn't mind the company." Jaune asked and for a moment he thought she wouldn't. But she did, she set her book down and sat in the chair across from him.

"Port's class." She said pointing to the book.

"Yeah, I thought his class was mostly telling stories." Jaune said leaning back in his seat.

"So, does everyone."

"I'm Jaune." Jaune said introducing himself and holding out his hand.

"Velvet." She said after a few seconds and shook his hand. "Port's class gets slightly worse later in the year."

"Great." Jaune said slouching in his seat.

"Do you need some help?" Velvet asked seeing his notes.

"That would be great." Jaune said perking up. "But I don't want to take your time."

"It's no biggie." Velvet said changing seats to the one next to him. "Besides hunters help each other."

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Velvet had been a great help in catching up to the others. Thanks to her tutoring Jaune managed to get a decent grade on the quiz. After that they talked whenever they got the chance. Soon Jaune saw her as a friend that helped him.

"That was one of the rare moments where I wasn't harassed on account of my ears." Velvet said looking at Jaune and he could tell that some of her nervous faded away. "You never treated me any different. As I got to know you more. I saw a person who doesn't judge based on appearance but rather on actions. That's rare."

Jaune didn't say anything and listened as Velvet talked.

"You helped me Jaune, even if you didn't know it at the time." Velvet said lowering her head. "I had just gotten into an argument with my team and decided to head for the library to think. That's when I saw you studying and talking to yourself." She said smiling at the memory and making Jaune rub the back of head.

"You helped take away some of the stuff that had been plaguing my mind." She said looking at Jaune with tears. "The truth is I was debating dropping out." Velvet said surprising Jaune.

"It just gets hard with all the bullying and harassments. Then meeting you, reminded me of why I wanted to be huntress in the first place. To show people that not all faunus are bad people. That we are people too." She said with conviction in her voice and her posture straightened. "That's when I started to like you." Velvet said with a smile.

"You saw me as a person and not some animal." Velvet said and Jaune moved to hug her. This stunned her but soon she returned the hug.

"You are a person." Jaune told her and she hugged him tighter. "I'm glad I could help you. I don't care if you're a faunus, nor if you have two extra ears. I care about you as a person."

"As a friend?" Velvet asked looking up to Jaune nervous of his answer.

"You're a strong, confident, amazing woman." Jaune told her making her smile. "Then there's me. I'm not that special save for my name and personality."

"You're you. You don't pretend to be someone you're not." Velvet said looking at Jaune. "I like that and I like how you keep to your convictions."

"It's still hard to wrap my head around that four amazing women are interested in me." Jaune said tilting his head.

"Stranger things have happened." Velvet said referring to their current predicament. "So, are you willing to be in relationship with four women?"

"Are you willing to be with a talent less idiot like me?" Jaune asked with a sheepish grin. Velvet smiled before leaning up and kissing Jaune on the lips, surprising him.

"There's my answer." She said pulling back and looking Jaune in the eyes.

Jaune looked at Velvet stunned before lowering his head and kissing Velvet. It started off simple, just a simple peck on the lips that then moved into a full kiss. Jaune felt her tongue brush against his teeth and he granted her access. The two held each other tightly as they kissed, their tongues battling for dominance over the other. Eventually the two separated and panted, both of them are blushing.

"It won't be easy." Jaune said looking at Velvet. "But I'm willing to try." Velvet smiled at his answer and kissed him again.

"We should get back to the others." She said letting go of him and unlocked the door. The two left the room and walked back to the others.

"Jaune!"

Jaune saw Ren waving him over. Velvet pushed him in the direction of Ren and went to join the others.

"What's up?" Jaune asked when he reached Ren.

"I need to ask you something." Ren said gesturing for him to follow. Jaune followed Ren until they were in an empty hall. "What are you going to do?" Ren asked turning to face Jaune.

"About…" Jaune asked.

"The girls." Ren said looking at Jaune with a straight face. "You just found out that four of our classmates like you and they agreed to share you. What are you going to do?"

"I'm willing to try and make it work." Jaune said and Ren raised an eyebrow. "I'm not stupid, Ren. I know it's going to be tough and difficult. But if they're willing, then I'm willing too."

"It's not uncommon for huntsmen to have multiple partners." Ren said surprising Jaune. "We have a short life expectancy and so are granted certain leniencies that aren't available to the rest of the public. One being the multiple partners for huntsmen and huntresses."

"Really?" Jaune asked not knowing that little piece of information.

"Yeah, it's an old law and the idea is that the children will inherit their parent's semblances and power. They in turn go on to become huntsmen and huntresses." Ren explained. "As a result, hunters are known for having multiple partners."

"That's comforting to know." Jaune said chuckling to himself. "Thanks."

Ren nodded and left to head back to the theater. "Oh and Jaune." He said before leaving.

"Hurt Nora, and I'll break your legs." Ren told Jaune before leaving.

"Understood." Jaune said with a nervous chuckle, he genuinely believed that the calm ninja would indeed break his legs if he hurt Nora. He would never hurt Nora or the others. If he did, then he would march to Ren and demand that he break his legs.

Jaune returned to the theater lobby and saw the others in their own group. Velvet is chatting with Pyrrha. He saw Ren talking to Sun and decided to join their group.

"Everyone, please come back to the theater."

Everyone went back into the theater and took their seats. Terra and the rest of the children came back and sat in their previous seats, Terra handed Adrian back to Saphron who took him and bounced him on her knee, making him giggle and laugh.

"Welcome back everyone. I trust everyone enjoyed seeing the replicas in the lobby." Spart said from his usual spot.

"More like, almost had a heart attack." Yang grumbled not wanting to admit that when she saw them, she freaked out and screamed with Ruby.

"Glad you enjoyed it, then." Spart said with a smug tone that made her want to punch him.

"For the next showing, it will be a universe that is lighter in tone but has some important issues. That the adults may notice." Spart told making them wonder what issues they are going to see. "Also, this universe doesn't have humans, instead the population is mammals that have evolved to walk and talk like humans."

"Fascinating. So, they're anthropomorphic." Blake said wondering what their counterparts are going to look like.

"I wonder what I look like?" Ruby wondered what her animal counterpart is.

"Will there be any sloths?" Nora asked in excitement.

"Oh, yes. There are sloths and you may see them." Spart said and Nora practically vibrated in her seat in excitement at seeing a sloth.

"Also, while Jaune is in this universe. He doesn't show up until later." Spart added as the lights began to fade and the screen came to life.

A Tiger's roar could be heard in the distance.

Among the jungle leaves a small brown bunny could be seen.

"Fear. Treachery. Bloodlust."

"Laying it on pretty thick." Nora said taking a sip of water.

"That sounds like-" Velvet said recognizing the voice.

"Who?" Coco asked curious.

"I think we'll find out soon enough." Velvet said looking back the screen. She had a feeling she knew who was talking.

"I thought this universe the mammals evolved to walk and talk." Pyrrha asked seeing the bunny hop along.

"This could be a flashback." Jaune said taking a sip of soda.

The bunny sniffs the ground before looking at something in the distance and hopping behind a tree.

"Thousands of years ago, these were the forces that ruled our world."

The bunny slowly hopped out from behind the tree and moved between the fern leaves. The bunny constantly looked out the leaves feeling uneasy.

"A world where prey were scared of predators."

The bunny hopped quickly sensing danger, unaware of the tiger watching, hidden in the leaves. The tiger growl as it watched the bunny.

"No! Stay away from the bunny!" Weiss shouted at the screen. She is a defender of all things adorable and she will protect them no matter the cost.

Adrian also joined in her shouting, wanting to defend the innocent bunny from the large scary predator.

"And predators had an uncontrollable, biological urge to maim."

The bunny stopped at a small pond and began drinking water.

"And maul."

The bunny's ears straightened and looked back.

"And…"

The tiger leaped out of the leaves, its maw open ready to snare the poor bunny in between its jaws.

"No!" Weiss and Adrian screamed and shut their eyes not wanting to see what's going to happen next. Even Ruby joined them in closing her eyes.

"Rawr!" Shouted a small tiger cub wearing a suit that tried to match the fur of the tiger but failed since it was too orange.

"Ahh!" screamed a small brown bunny wearing a grey leotard. The bunny shielded her face as the tiger cub pretended to swipe at her. "Blood, blood, blood." The bunny said while tossing out red stands of ribbon from a small pouch on her outfit.

The tiger cub stood looking at bunny as she made gurgling sounds and fell over. She reached for a bottle of ketchup hidden behind a stage prop. Grabbing the bottle, she puts it beside her and squeezed it multiple times spraying ketchup all over herself while making death sounds.

"And death." The bunny said dramatically before squeezing the remainder of the ketchup out and groaning before "dying".

"She's really milking it." Yang said smiling at the performance. "It's like your first play." She told her sister making her groan.

"I don't want to remember that." Ruby said with a groan at the memory. It didn't help that their dad still has the recording hidden somewhere in the house.

"I can show the recording to your friends." Tai said with a huge grin while Ruby looked horrified at the prospect of everyone seeing the footage.

"Tai." Summer admonished her husband.

"What? It's a father's job to embarrass his children to their friends." Tai said defending his actions with a smile while his daughters looked horrified.

"That is adorable." Saphron said at the play and at the children acting. It reminded her of her younger siblings play. Adrian smiled when he saw the bunny is still ok.

In the audience are two older bunnies. One is wearing overalls and wearing a hat with a picture of a carrot. He is recording the play and lowered the camera with a shocked expression. The other bunny is wearing a stripped flannel with the sleeves removed, she put a hand over her face to hide her expression. Surround the two are multiple bunny children of different ages, each of them have different expressions. Some shocked, appalled, and others amused.

The rest of the older audiences have shocked expressions.

"I bet they weren't expecting that." Emilia said with a smile at the scene.

"It seems improvised." Jaune said. "At least she didn't go completely overboard with it."

"Waste of ketchup." Susie Arc said with dismay at seeing the spilled ketchup on the stage floor. "Surely colored water would have the same effect?"

"Water is way to liquid and doesn't have the same effect as ketchup." Rosemary Arc told her younger sister.

Off stage is a Cougar cub with two timpani mallet sticks, seeing his cue he pounds the small timpani drum in front of him. The timpani create two thundering sounds. Once done he holds the mallet sticks at the ready for his next cue.

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"Back then, the world was divided in two." The bunny said getting back up and points at her fellow actor who is still holding his arms out. Behind them the set changes.

"Vicious predators." She said pointing to the tiger cub who hisses.

"Or meek prey." The bunny said facing the audience with her hands in front of her. She adopted a timid stance, her bunny ears flattened further adding to the timid appearance.

"Okay, that is adorable." Blake said seeing the bunny looking timid. It reminded her of her cat when he was a kitten. She missed him and hated that Beacon had a strict no pets policy.

"This is weird." Velvet whispered seeing her younger self as an animal, and then have people call her cute.

"What's weird?" Coco asked with a tilt of her head.

"Nothing. Keep watching, you'll find out soon."

"Or you could just tell me." Coco asked looking at her partner.

Above them two boxes are slowly lowered. The bunny moves under hers and the tiger waves at his parents in the audience before the box hits him in the head reminding him of the play. Quickly he steps into the correct position and the box covers the box of them. Written on the boxes are "Vicious Predator" and "Meek Prey".

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The cougar cub plays a few notes on the piano, creating a deep ominous sound.

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"But over time. We evolved."

A Lamb wearing white robes and a rainbow headpiece comes on stage and twirls in front of the two boxes.

"And moved beyond our primitive savage ways."

The lamb throws petals at the two boxes before moving upstage behind the boxes and gestures for the boxes to rise, which they do.

The bunny and the tiger are now wearing white robes.

"Now, predator and prey live in harmony."

The bunny and tiger hold hands while facing the audience, the lamb dances around them before pulling out a party popper and pulling the sting on the end. Confetti blew out from the popper and a small horn sounded as well. The tiger and the bunny let go and the tiger took a few steps to the side while the lamb did the same.

"Huh, I wonder what caused them to evolve down that path." Ren pondered ordering some more health smoothies for himself.

"There are many things in nature that we don't understand." Li told his son, earning a nod of agreement from his wife.

"Wise words." Port said agreeing with Li. "Why, I once saw a pack of wolves take down an Alpha Ursa once."

"I thought Grimm don't attack the wildlife." Jaune said turning in his seat to face his professor.

"There have been instances of predatory animals attacking Grimm." Glynda said drinking some tea that she ordered. "They are very rare."

"And every young mammal has multitudinous opportunities." The bunny said holding up a finger and looking to the lamb.

"Yeah, I don't have to cower in a herd anymore." The lamb said with a slight drawl. She removed the rainbow headpiece and took off the robe revealing a space suit. Reaching behind a set piece, the lamb pulls out a makeshift helmet and puts it on. "Instead, I can be an astronaut."

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Seeing his cue, the cougar cub plays a slide whistle making a sci-fi sound effect to accompany the lamb's declaration.

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"I don't have to be a lonely hunter anymore." The tiger cub said holding up a finger before pulling off the robe showing his suit and tie. "Today, I can hunt for tax exemptions. I'm gonna be an actuary." He declared holding up a pen.

"A what?" Nora asked confused since she never heard the name before.

"A person who analyzes the financial consequences of risk." Willow said earning a few looks cast her way. "What?"

The cougar cub plays a triumphant tune on the piano.

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"And I can make the world a better place." The bunny said stepping forward. "I am going to be-"

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The cougar cub holds a radio tape player and presses play. A theme belonging to a cop show plays and the cougar cub moves his head with the beat.

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"A police officer." The bunny said removing the robe to show her makeshift uniform.

The girl's parents look at each other with concern at her declaration. Some of their children clapped for their sister.

In another part of the audience someone can be heard laughing.

"A bunny cop! That is the most stupidest thing I ever heard." A fox said playfully shoving his friend. The fox is wearing overalls and has his hair parted down the middle.

"Does that sound like Cardin?" Pyrrha asked.

"Yeah, it does." Jaune said looking at the screen. "And he's a fox."

"What's with his hair?" Nora said giggling at his hair style. "It looks stupid."

Ruby chuckled at the hair and soon the others joined in at laughing at Cardin's hair.

"It may seem impossible to small minds." The bunny said putting on a police hat, her ears flattened so the hat won't press down on them. "I'm looking at you, Cardin Winchester."

Cardin's smirk disappeared and is replaced by a scowl. His friend freezes midway of eating popcorn.

"Boom." Yang said. "Nice."

"He's not gonna let that go." Velvet said speaking from experience.

"You never know. He could be less of a dick in this universe." Coco said drinking some coffee.

"We'll see."

"But, just two hundred and eleven miles away." She said pointed the curtain behind her that lifted revealing colored drawing of a city with "Zootopia" written in bold letters. "Stands the great city of Zootopia. Where our ancestors first joined hands in peace and declared that anyone can be anything!" She yelled in joy while her fellow actors held up a banner saying the same thing.

The cougar plays an electrical keyboard closing out the play.

"Thank you and good night." The bunny said with a bow.

Meanwhile her parents slowly clapped while their children cheered for their sister.

"They don't seem happy with her decision." Weiss said seeing the parent's expression.

"They're probably worried for her safety." Jaune said glancing at his parents. Leon saw the look and looked away in shame.

"They should at least talk to her about it." Yang said ordering some water. "Better than ignoring the problem."

Outside the large barn where the play was in, is a festival with children laughing and multiple tents set up. Each with different prizes to win and games to play.

"Velvet, ever wonder how your mom and me got to be so darn happy?" Velvet's dad asked holding her hand while his wife held her other hand. Velvet jumped as she walked happy.

"Wait, Velvet!?" Coco said shocked and looked to her friend who shrugged.

"We really should have guess." Yang said leaning back in her seat. "I mean they're both bunnies."

"Yang!" Blake said.

"It's fine, Blake." Velvet said with a smile. "It's all in good fun, right?"

"Yeah." Yang said with a smile and a thumbs up.

"Nope." Velvet said cheerful.

"Well… we gave up on our dreams, and we settled." Velvet's dad said looking to his wife for help. "Right, Meg?"

"Oh yes, that's right, Will. We settled hard." Meg said looking at Velvet.

"See, that's the beauty of compliancy, Vel." Will said making gestures with his hand. "See, if you never try anything new. You'll never fail."

"That's terrible advice to give to child." Emilia said shaking her head at Velvet's parents.

"I'm glad they never gave me such advice." Velvet said thinking back to her parents.

"What are your parents like?" Jaune asked turning to face Velvet.

"Mom is a photographer. She loves to travel and take photos of different people and cultures." Vevlet said pulling out her scroll and showing him a photo. The photo shows a woman with rabbit ears and black hair and grey eyes. Beside her is a man wearing a lab coat. His hair is brown and he has light brown eyes. Both of them are holding each other and smiling at the camera.

"Dad is an engineer for Atlas. He loves to invent things." Velvet said smiling at the photo. "Mom is hardly ever around. Thanks to her job as a photographer."

"Sounds like you got the best from both." Jaune said with a smile making Velvet smile as well.

"I guess I did." Velvet said still smiling.

"I like trying, actually." Velvet said letting go of her parents' hand and hopping on a hay bale and began skipping.

"What your father means, hon. Is that it's going to difficult." Meg said walking next to the hay bale. "Impossible, even for you to become a police officer."

"Right, there's never been a bunny cop." Will said looking at his daughter.

"No."

"Bunnies don't do that."

"Never."

"Never."

Velvet slowed her skipping to think on what her parents said. 'Huh, then… I guess I'll have to be the first one. Because I-" Velvet hops off the hay bale and jumps off the side of an ice cream cart and flips in the air landing on her feet. "Am gonna make the world a better place!" She declares throwing her arms in the air triumphantly.

"Uh huh, or-" Will says seeing the stand he set up earlier. One of his older kids is manning the stand. "Heck, you want to talk about making the world a better place. No better way to do it, than by becoming a carrot farmer." He tells Velvet while standing in front of the stand and pointing behind him. Meg stands next to Will to show her support.

"Yes!" Meg said with excitement. "Your dad, me, your 275 brothers and sisters. We're changing the world."

"Yeah." Will said agreeing with his wife.

"I knew bunnies had a lot of kids. But damn." Yang whistled at the number of kids the Scarlatina's had. "Can you imagine having that many brothers and sisters?"

"I think I would go insane." Ruby said and Weiss agreed. Having that many siblings would drive her insane. Blake on the other hand is glad that she's an only child, but there were times she wondered what it would be like to have a younger sibling. Come to think of it, she's the only member of her team that doesn't have any siblings.

"Aww, you wouldn't want a young sibling to boss around?" Yang asked Ruby recalling all the times she bossed Ruby around when they were younger.

"Not really?" Ruby honestly said, though the thought was appealing for a second.

"One carrot at a time." Meg said holding up her finger to prove her point.

"Amen to that." Will said wrapping an arm around Meg. "Carrot farming is a noble profession."

Velvet has a look of surprise on her face at what her parents are telling her. Hearing the cheers of other children catches her attention. She sees a group of children cheering and taking a shortcut behind the tents, she also sees Cardin and his friend leaning on a crate.

"Feel the seeds."

"One with the soil. Just get covered in dirt."

Velvet's nose twitches as she sees Cardin pat his friend's arm and the two follow the group.

"Oh no." Blake said worried about what Cardin is going to do to those kids.

"Once a bully, always a bully." Ruby said looking at the screen.

"His parents need to discipline him." Saphron said shaking her head at Cardin's actions. Adrian copied his mother and shook his head, earning coos of affection at his display.

"I mean it's great to have dreams." Meg said focusing on her husband.

"Yeah, just as long as you don't believe in them too much." Will said holding up his finger. Velvet disappeared while they were talking about the perks of being a carrot farmer.

"Where'd the heck she go?" Will asked looking around trying to spot Velvet.

"Again, with the terrible advice." Saphron said agreeing with her mother regarding the terrible advice being told on screen.

"They do have a point, though." Raven said. "It's not enough to dream. You have to be strong enough to see that dream come to fruition. Otherwise there's no point in holding onto said dream."

"Still not the best advice to give to a child." Saphron said looking at the crimson bandit. She wouldn't understand since from what she heard, Raven left her child at a young age. She had no right to question what was right and wrong when it comes to children.

Terra nudged her wife, hoping that the two wouldn't come to blows. She didn't want to see what Raven is capable of.

Saphron looked at her and hugged Adrian tighter.

Velvet peeks around a tree to see Cardin and his friend bullying the group of kids.

"Give me your tickets right now." Cardin demands trying to look intimidating, the poor kids are trying to make themselves smaller. "Or I'm gonna kick your meek little sheep butt." He said shoving the lamb's face to the side.

"Ow, cut it out Cardin." The lamb cries holding tightly onto her tickets.

"Baaa, baaa! What are you gonna do?" Cardin mocks her while grabbing the tickets from her and shoving them into his pocket. "Cry?"

"Seems in every universe. He's a dick." Coco whispered not wanting the Arc children to hear her.

"You're probably right." Pyrrha said shaking her head at Cardin's display.

"Not nice." Adrian said pointing to the screen.

"That's right. Not nice." Terra said to Adrian before pinching his cheeks, making him giggle.

"Aww." All the teens said and some of the adults said. Ozpin smiled remembering his own daughters when they were little. The memory brought up mixed emotions.

"Hey!" Velvet yells getting their attention as she marches up to them. "You heard her. Cut it out."

"Nice costume loser." Cardin said with a smirk. His friend immediately goes behind him. The kids slowly back away now that Cardin's attention is on Velvet. "What crazy world are you living in. Where you think a bunny could be a cop?" He asked slowly walking towards her.

"Kindly return my friend's tickets." Velvet said holding her hand out.

"Come and get 'em." Cardin said hitting his chest. "But watch out, cause I'm a fox." He said showing his claws to her. "And like you said in your dumb little stage play, us predators used to eat prey."

"And that killer instinct still in our duh-nuh." Cardin said towering over her.

"Uh, I'm pretty much sure its pronounced DNA." Cardin's friend told him before he was shoved back.

"Don't tell me what I know, Sky."

"Typical, acts like he knows everything." Ren said leaning back in his seat.

"Don't forget that he's still a kid." Jaune said. "I remember when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything."

"It's true. It was adorable." Emilia said with a fond smile at the memories of a young Jaune.

"Any stories?" Yang asked hopeful.

"Plenty." Emilia said making Jaune worry about what stories his mother is going to tell. "But later."

"You don't scare me, Cardin." Velvet said stepping forward.

Cardin shoved her away and Velvet fell down. The other kids screamed and ran.

"Scared now? Look at your nose twitch." Cardin said standing over her with a satisfied smirk.

"She is scared." Sky said pointing at Velvet.

"Cry little baby bunny." Cardin mocked leaning over her. Velvet kicked him in the nose when he got close enough making him stumble back. The kids who hid behind a tree gasped when they saw Velvet kick Cardin.

"A good kick, nice." Coco said before looking to Velvet. "You could learn a thing from her."

"Maybe." Velvet said looking impressed at her younger self on screen for being braver than she is.

"You'll get there." Coco told her, placing a hand on her shoulder.

Cardin ran his tongue over his teeth tasting blood. "You don't know when to quit, do you." He said showing his claws making Velvet gasp in fear. Cardin growled before swiping at her.

The kids screamed and looked away.

Velvet held her cheek where three slashes from Cardin could be seen, not deep enough to draw blood but still noticeable.

Cardin forced her head to the side, she looked at him with fear unsure of what he's going to do next.

"I want you to remember this moment. The next time you think, you will ever be anything more than just a stupid carrot farming dumb bunny." Cardin told her letting go and walking away with his friend.

"Jeez." Yang said shaking her head, glad that Ruby never had such an experience when she was younger.

"Children can be so cruel at times." Kali said and all the mothers in the room nodded in agreement, except for Raven.

"There is no way Cardin gets away with attacking Velvet." Weiss said taking a sip of tea. "Her parents are going to notice the marks."

"Yeah, I hope they show that." Coco said with a smirk. She hated the fact Cardin hadn't been punished back in their world line. Velvet didn't want to bring the issue up with the teachers, claiming that it would die off as the year went on. But it didn't, if anything it worsened as the year went on. She had tried to convince them but nothing ever came of it, Velvet continued to say that she is fine.

She even told the teachers and nothing was done. They said they would handle the situation and nothing was done.

The kids ran out from behind the tree and went to Velvet.

"That looks bad." One of the kids said seeing the scratches.

"Are you okay, Velvet?" The lamb with concerned.

"Yeah…yeah, I'm okay." Velvet said slowly getting up and handing the girl back her tickets. "Here you go."

"Wow, you got our tickets." The lamb said grabbing the tickets and holding onto them.

"You're awesome, Velvet." One of the kids said in admiration.

"Yeah, that Cardin Winchester don't know what he's talking 'bout." The lamb said while Velvet got back to her feet and dusted herself off.

"Well, he was right about one thing." Velvet said picking up her hat off the ground and put it back on. "I don't know when to quit."

"That's my girl!" Coco cheered Velvet on screen, making the real Velvet glad that she has such a good friend and teammate.

"Are we gonna see a training montage?" Sun asked, he always enjoyed those segments in movies. With the music and the character pushing themselves to the extreme.

"I think so." Neptune said knowing how much his friend enjoys them.

15 years later

Velvet is now at the Zootopia Police Academy with the new recruits listening to their instructor.

"Listen up, cadets!" The instructor said who is a polar bear. "Zootopia has twelve unique ecosystems, within its city limits."

---

"TundraTown."

An obstacle course has been set up with an ice wall, snow is being blown on the ice by a snow blower to simulate the snow winds that happen. Water is also being chilled should anyone fall in, they can experience the freezing waters.

---

"Sahara Square."

Another obstacle is set up, this time to resemble a desert. Large industrial fans are set up on one end to simulate the harsh desert winds along with heat lamps.

---

"Rain Forest District."

This course is different from the others since it features monkey bars and below them is a mud pit. Sprinklers help convey the feeling of rain and also make the bars slippery to hold onto.

---

"To name a few." The instructor told them walking back and forth in front of them. "You're gonna have to master all of them, before you hit the streets." She said bending over to look at Velvet.

"Or guess what? You'll be dead."

"That takes me back." Emilia said thinking back to her time in BT.

"Are the instructors that harsh?" Jaune asked since mom never really talked about her time in the military. He had seen the photos of her in uniform around the house.

"Some are, and others aren't." Emilia told him. "It really depends on the DI."

"Sounds like the Branwen tribe." Qrow said holding a fresh bowl of popcorn. "Lot of 'pleasant' memories."

Velvet and her fellow cadets are training in the Sahara Square course. The large fans are turned on blowing heat and sand at them, making them squint and struggle to move forward.

"Scorching sand storms." The instructor yelled standing next to the fans and holding the remote for them.

The cadets crawled and did their best to shield their eyes from the sand being blown at them. Velvet struggled to move forward, a strong gust of wind blew her back and completely covered her in sand. The only part of her that can be seen is her tail.

"You're dead, bunny bumpkin."

---

"One-thousand-foot fall." The instructor said observing the cadets while they moved across the monkey bars.

Velvet is stuck midway behind the other cadets and couldn't reach the next bar, her grip slipped and she fell face first into the mud pit.

"You're dead, carrot face."

Everyone winced when Velvet fell into the mud. They could only imagine what it must have felt like for her.

"That looked like it hurt." Velvet said glad that it wasn't her in that position.

"Better it happens in training than in the field." Blake said recalling her first injury that happened during her first mission with the White Fang.

"Mud fight!" Nora yelled standing up and pointing to her fellow female classmates. "We can make some money. We just need a pit of mud and all of you to wear bikinis. Bikini mud wrestling!"

"That's… actually not a bad idea." Coco said. "We could do it off campus and make some money, split it and sell merch at the same time."

"I'm not wearing a bikini and fighting in the mud." Weiss stated.

"Not even for Neptune?" Yang whispered making Weiss blush and cast a glance towards the blue haired teen. "I'm in, sounds fun." Yang said giving a thumbs up and not seeing the look her father casted in her direction.

"As long as it's off campus. We can't do anything." Glynda said with a sigh hoping that they won't actually do it.

"It does sound fun." Pyrrha said blushing at the thought of Jaune seeing her in a bikini. Maybe it's not such a bad idea after all and maybe others will see that she isn't the perfect girl that the media paints her out to be. She is human after all.

"Frigid ice wall." The instructor said pointing the wall where some of the cadets are trying to climb over it.

Velvet ran and jumped at the wall, unfortunately she couldn't climb it and slid down. She fell into the freezing water.

"You're dead, farm girl."

---

Inside the training room is a boxing ring. Velvet is hopping in place reading herself, her opponent is a rhino. Both of them wearing the appropriate protection, Velvet hit her gloves together.

"Enormous criminal." The instructor said giving the signal to start.

Velvet charged the rhino and is immediately knocked back to her previous spot.

"You're dead." The instructor said getting into Velvet's face.

---

Velvet once gain fell into the mud pit.

"Dead!"

---

Velvet and her cadet partner practiced getting out a patrol car. Her partner closed the car door too early and slammed on Velvet's ears.

"Dead!"

Velvet, Blake, Sienna, and Kali all winced when they saw Velvet's ears caught in the door. They all rubbed their ears feeling the pain of Velvet on screen. Even Sun rubbed his tail knowing the pain of something being slammed against it.

The cadets are climbing vines in the Rain Forest Course and Velvet lost her grip in the rain. She fell down, back into the mud pit.

---

"Dead!"

Velvet is tired from training and enters the restroom. She walks over to the stalls and pushes one open. She sighs as she enters and closes the door behind her. Velvet jumps and yelps in surprise before the sounds of splashing can be heard, along with water landing on the floor.

"Filthy toilet! You're dead, fluff butt!" The instructor yelled from the next stall.

"That's gross." Ruby said putting down a cookie.

"At least we didn't see it." Blake pointed out.

"No, instead we're left to imagine it." Weiss said while trying not to imagine the scene.

"I thought guys were the only ones who missed the bowl." Yang said with a straight face and is rewarded by popcorn being tossed in her direction, courtesy of Blake and Weiss.

Velvet ran the race track thinking back on everyone that said she couldn't do it. She stopped running to catch her breath before resuming her run, more determined to prove them wrong.

---

While the other cadets are sleeping, Velvet is doing upside down crunches while reading a book on the different things an officer might encounter while out on patrol.

---

Back at the Tundra Course, Velvet ran past a rhino cadet surprising him. She jumped onto another cadet's head, then another and made it over the wall with the other cadets.

The instructor smiled when she saw Velvet make it.

---

In the boxing ring, Velvet is once again sparring with a rhino and dodges his first punch and slides under his second. Velvet runs and jumps onto the rope using it as a springboard to launch herself at the rhino. She kicked his fist, forcing him to punch himself.

The rhino's spit out his mouth guard not expecting to be punched with his own fist and spun, spit flowed from his mouth as he landed on the floor of the ring.

"Size really doesn't matter." Sun said impressed that Velvet managed to knock out an opponent larger than her.

"Talk about hitting yourself." Yang said and no one said anything. "Come on…"

"We may need to stage an intervention." Weiss said rubbing her temples.

"We tried before and it only got worse." Ruby told her patting her back. "It's better to just accept it. Over time you learn to tune it out."

"Come on, I'm not that bad." Yang said defending herself. "In fact, I'm pun-tastic."

"It gets better with time." Ruby told Weiss.

"Does it?" Blake asked and Ruby didn't answer.

"Don't mess with the bunny." Nora said. "It's always the small ones that get you."

Graduation day has come for the cadets and they are in their Dress Blues, with their hats tucked under the arms. Their families sit cheering for them as the Mayor, who is a lion gives his speech.

"As Mayor of Zootopia, I am proud to announce that my mammal inclusion initiative. Has produced its first Police Academy Graduate." The Mayor says before pointing to Velvet who straightens up proudly. "Valedictorian of her class. ZPD's very first rabbit officer, Velvet Scarlatina."

Velvet smiles as she walks toward the stage to receive her badge.

Her parents are cheering for her along with her siblings. Will is crying and clapping at the same time. Meg looks at her husband with a raised eyebrow.

Velvet stands at attention in front of the Mayor and the Assistant Mayor, who is a small sheep clapping.

"Assistant Mayor Goodwitch, her badge." The Mayor said after clearing his throat.

"Huh…oh yes!" Goodwitch said frantically searching her pockets for the badge.

"I'm surprised to see Lionheart and Glynda in this universe." Ozpin said surprised to see the headmaster of Haven and Glynda.

"And she's a sheep." Oobleck pointed out seeing the sheep version of Glynda.

"And still an assistant." Glynda said glumly. There had to be a universe where she isn't an assistant, right?

"Thank you…" The Mayor said looking back to the crowd and smiling at them.

Goodwitch approached Velvet and pinned the badge on her uniform. Velvet smiled glancing at the badge on her chest.

"Velvet, it is my great privilege to officially assign you, to the heart of Zootopia." The Mayor told Velvet, making her gasp and smile. "Precinct One, city center."

Meg and Will both had concerned looks on their face when they heard where Velvet is going to be assigned. They slowly clapped while their children cheered.

"Her hard work is being rewarded." Summer said smiling at the screen. It reminded her of her own struggles to make it to Beacon.

"I'm guessing being assigned to Precinct One is the dream of every cop." Tai said stretching his arms above his head.

"Probably where all the action is." James said from his spot.

"My parents had the same look when I told them that I was going to be a huntress." Velvet said referring to her parents on screen.

"How do they feel now?" Jaune asked casting a glance towards his parents.

"They accepted it and try to be supportive."

"That's good."

"Congratulations, Officer Scarlatina." Goodwtich said smiling making Velvet stand straighter.

"I won't you down." Velvet said with determination before leaning closer to Goodwitch. "This has been my dream, since I was a kid."

"You know, its uh- it's a real proud day for us little guys." Goodwitch said with a wink.

"Goodwitch, make room will ya. Come on." The Mayor said pushing Goodwitch out of the way and stood next to Velvet. "Okay, Officer Scarlatina, let's see those teeth." He said placing an arm on her back and smiling at the camera.

Velvet smiled at the cameras while Goodwitch tries to get into the picture but can't since the Mayor is blocking her. Goodwitch leans out from behind Velvet and smiles for the cameras.

"She seems timid than ours." Port said and all of the teaching staff and students agreed.

"Also, Lionheart seems more concerned about his image." Qrow said tossing some popcorn in his mouth.

"Typical politician." Ozpin said, knowing that the real Lionheart is a good man that cares for his students.

At the train station, Velvet and her family are waiting for the train to Zootopia. A banner that says "Congrats Velvet" is hung on the side of the station.

"We're real proud of you, Velvet." Meg told her daughter,

"Yeah…uh, scared too." Will said nervously. "Really, it's kind of a proud, scared combo. I mean Zootopia…its so far away. Such a big city." He said with a nervous chuckle.

"My parents felt the same when I was leaving for Beacon." Velvet said after ordering some more carrot juice. Whoever made the food here in this "world" definitely needed a medal. The food and drinks are simply divine.

"I think all parents are like that." Yang said looking at her dad.

"What?"

"That's sweet." Summer said wishing she could have seen what happened. Knowing Tai, he probably did something embarrassing for the girls.

"Guys, I've been working for this my whole life." Velvet told her parents trying to calm them down.

"We know, and we're just a little excited for you, but terrified." Meg said looking at Will then back to Velvet.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Velvet said quoting a famous rabbit philosopher.

"And also bears. We have bears to fear to." Will said with a chuckle. "Say nothing of lions, and wolves."

"Wolves?" Meg asked looked at her husband as he continued to list off predators.

"Weasels." Will said pointing a finger at her.

"You play cards with a weasel." Meg pointed out.

"Yeah, and he cheats like there's no tomorrow." Will said shaking his head at the memory.

"I know someone like that." James said looking at Ozpin.

"I never cheat." Ozpin said raising his mug to him.

"How many years have you played chess." James asked. "For all we know, you probably invented it."

"I didn't. A close friend of mine did."

"I think we all know someone like that." Yang said looking to her uncle who simply shrugged. Tai looked at his ex-wife, thinking back to all the times she cheated at cards.

"You know what, pretty much all predators. And Zootopia's full of them." Will said looking at his daughter.

"Wow, prejudice much?" Kali asked surprised at what she just heard.

"Guess prejudices exist in every universe." Ghira said with a slight shake of his head.

"Such is the way of life." Spart said from his spot above them. "People are always going to dislike someone."

"You make it sound like everyone hate each other." Ren said looking at Spart.

"Not everyone. There are good ones and bad ones."

"Oh, Will." Meg said shaking her head at her husband.

"And foxes are the worst."

"Actually, your father does have a point there." Meg said agreeing with Will. "It's in their biology. Remember what happened with Cardin Winchester."

"When I was nine." Velvet said with a chuckle. "Cardin Winchester was a jerk, who happened to be a fox. I know plenty of bunnies who are jerks."

"Sure, we all do. Absolutely, but just in case…" Will said grabbing a bag near his feet and held it up for Velvet to see. "We made you a little care package to take with you."

"I put some snacks in there." Meg said with a gentle smile.

"Such a mom thing to do." Terra said with a smile.

"What do you think is inside the bag?" Penny asked with a slight tilt of her head.

"Based on what the dad said, probably something to do with predators or foxes." Pyrrha said crossing her legs.

"This is fox deterrent." Will said holding a spray can for Velvet to see. "Fox Away" is written on the canister.

Velvet shook her head slowly at the can.

"Yeah, that's safe to have." Meg said.

"This is fox repellant." Will said holding up a mace.

"Okay, the deterrent and the repellant. That's all she needs." Meg said trying to get him to stop.

"Check this out." Will said holding up a taser and turned it on. Large blue sparks erupted out of the tiny taser.

"Oh, for goodness sake." Meg said upon seeing the taser.

"That seemed…" Penny said trying to find the word.

"Excessive?" Weiss said.

"Over the top?" Yang added.

"A bit much?" Ruby added.

"… All of them." Penny said looking at the screen.

"She has no need for a fox taser, Will." Meg told her husband placing a hand on his arm and lowered it.

"Oh, come on. When is there not a need for a fox taser?" Will asked letting go of the on switch and putting the taser back in the bag.

"Okay, look. I will take this." Velvet said taking the fox repellant out of the bag and holding up so her father can see. "To make you stop talking."

"Terrific! Everyone wins." Will said happily setting the bad down just as the train arrived. All the passengers disembarked when the train stops and the doors open.

"Okay, gotta go. Bye!" Velvet yells grabbing her suitcase and boarding the train. Behind her, her family shout messages of encouragement. Her father looks sad and waves slowly. Velvet stops and drops her bags to give her parents another hug.

"I love you guys." Velvet tells her parents as they hug her back, she kisses the both of them on the cheek before heading back on the train.

"Love you too." Meg said holding onto her husband who started sniffing.

"Oh cripes, here comes the waterworks." Will said, his voice breaking and started crying.

"Oh, Will…pull it together." Meg told him as he leaned on her for support.

"Bye, everybody!" Velvet yelled waving at her large family. The train doors closing and the train started moving. Velvet watched as her younger siblings ran with the train waving at her. "Bye."

The train departed Bunnyburrow where the population is 81,435,898 and continually growing since the last number is constantly climbing up.

"I know bunnies reproduce fast, but damn." Sun said impressed at the size of the population size.

"A bunny is born every minute." Blake said amazed by the climbing numbers. "Or in this case, seconds."

Velvet is in the viewing car so she can see the different zones that make up Zootopia. She put in her earbuds and scrolled down her music playlist until she found the song she's looking for. She hit play and watched the passing landscape

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

"Are we gonna have to listen as well?" Qrow said with a groan, he wasn't a big fan of music.

"You need to broaden your horizons." Tai said looking at his friend. "Can't be a grouch all the time."

"Kept me alive this far." Qrow responded eating more popcorn.

Velvet moved her head with the beat and saw in the distance the great city of Zootopia. Skyscrapers reflected the light from the sun. It took her breath away to see the city for the first time.

I messed up tonight
I lost another fight
I still mess up but I'll just start again
I keep falling down
I keep on hitting the ground
I always get up now to see what's next
Birds don't just fly
They fall down and get up

Nobody learns without getting it wrong

The train entered the Sahara zone where many animals that are suited for the dry airy climate of the desert can live.

Velvet looked out the window as the train passed a skyscraper made to look like a palm tree, she stared in awe of the architecture.

I won't give up, no, I won't give in
'Til I reach the end
And then I'll start again
No, I won't leave
I wanna try everything
I wanna try even though I could fail

The train left the Sahara zone behind and entered the Tundra zone. Ice and snow covered everything and it appeared that some of the buildings were carved from the ice. It was truly a sight to see.

Velvet wiped the window free of steam and looked out to see many mammals walking the streets not bothered by the cold.

"Amazing to see so many mammals." Ren said with amazement at the screen.

"I don't see any sloths." Nora said with disappointment.

"The song is catchy." Pyrrha said tapping her feet to the beat. The lyrics also spoke to her since she had to work hard for everything she had. She stumbled in the beginning and lost a few matches, eventually she got better with time and started winning tournaments.

"Yes, the meaning is also clear." Penny said also enjoying the music and moved her head to the beat.

I won't give up, no, I won't give in
'Til I reach the end
And then I'll start again
No, I won't leave
I wanna try everything
I wanna try even though I could fail

The train left the frozen zone and now entered the Rainforest zone. Rain fell on the train and Velvet smiled when she saw the raindrops hitting the window above her.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, try everything
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, try everything
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, try everything
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

In the trees are sprinklers that simulate the feeling of rain to help the rainforest sustain itself. Velvet watched as a blimp flew over the train with a smile on her face. She looked forward to see a tunnel coming up and she knew that the city of Zootopia is next.

The train entered the tunnel and exited, entering the city of Zootopia. Velvet smiled widely and grabbed her bags as the train entered the station.

I'll keep on making those new mistakes
I'll keep on making them every day
Those new mistakes

The train stopped at the station and Velvet was the first one off when the doors opened. She took the escalator and got off making sure to look at everything around her as she walked through the station.

Hippopotamus wearing business suits got off their version of an escalator and walked onto a platform. They held their arms out as the air blew from the platform drying them off so they don't have to walk around in wet clothes.

Lemmings wearing suits waited for their turn to get to the ground floor via colorful tubes. The lemmings exited the tubes save for one that was checking his phone, unfortunately another lemming came and landed on him, then another.

"Oh no." Adrian said making his mother laugh.

"Always pay attention and don't be distracted." Glynda said shaking her head. "Remember this lesson children. It will save your life in the field."

"She's right." James said. "A distracted hunter is easy prey for the Grimm and other threats."

"Good to know." Jaune said thankful for the advice.

"So many different species all living together." An said after ordering some tea. "And the city the needs to accommodate all of them."

"Can't be easy." Blake said wondering if she is a cat in this universe. It would be interesting to see herself in this universe and what her friends look like.

Velvet smiled at the scene as she walked past the scene and continued to look around. At a juice bar a beaver inserted a straw into a cup and put it into a delivery tube where the drink is delivered to a giraffe.

Moving on, Velvet jogged out of the station entering the city and looked at everything in awe

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, try everything
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, try everything
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, try everything
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Try everything

"I'm Gazelle, welcome to Zootopia." An electronic screen of the famous pop singer said to all the newcomers.

---

"And welcome to the Grand Pangolin Arms." An armadillo said opening a door to Velvet's new apartment. It was small and cramped, a single bed was pushed against the wall and across it is a desk. "Luxury apartment, with charm."

"I think we have different definitions of luxury." Sienna said raising an eyebrow at the small apartment. It reminded her of the apartments afforded to the faunus in Remnant.

"Looks like my first apartment." Emilia said with a fond smile at the memory.

"How can anyone live in that apartment?" Weiss asked already feeling cramped just by looking at the apartment.

"Not everyone can live in a mansion." Ren said thinking back to some of the apartments he had to share with Nora. They made do, though not without issues they had to sort out. "For some, that's all they can afford.

"Better to get something you can afford, then something you can't." Nora spoke up. "Most people are struggling to make ends meet and sometimes they need to sacrifice comfort."

"Complimentary delousing once a month." The landlady said before handing the key to Velvet. "Don't lose your key." She said with a finger pointed at her before dropping the key into Velvet's hand.

"Thank you." Velvet said as the landlady walked off, she saw two male oryx walking down the hall. "Oh hi, I'm Velvet. Your new neighbor." She said introducing herself and waving.

"Yeah? Well, we're loud." One of the male oryx said opening a can of soda as he walked past her.

"Don't expect us to apologize for it." The other oryx said carrying a bag of groceries. They entered their room and slammed the door shut.

"At least they're honest." Yang said ordering a refill on her drink. "Better than our own neighbors."

"For the last time. It's not our fault the walls are thin." Jaune said referring to the time he and Ren got into a heated argument. Apparently, everyone in the dorms heard them and shouted for them to shut up.

"You were lucky it was the weekend and we got our sleep back." Blake said.

"How about the time Yang decided to sing off key?" Nora asked jumping to the defense of her team. "It sounded like nails on a chalk board."

"I had a sore throat." Yang said turning in her seat to face Nora.

"There's not a crappy dancer that doesn't blame her shoes." Nora responded with a smirk.

"You're a crappy dancer." Yang retorted quickly before smiling. "One that can use a hammer effectively."

"Damn straight." Nora said with a smirk.

Velvet picked up her bags and entered her new apartment. "Greasy walls." She said looking at the walls and set her bags on the bed. "Rickety bed." The two oryx are now arguing about something and shouting at each to shut up. Their shouting causing the small pictures on the wall to move.

"Crazy neighbors." She said before smiling. "I love it." She said falling on the rickety bed.

---

Velvet's alarm clock goes off at 5:30 in the morning, she turns the alarm off and gets ready for her first day of work.

Velvet hops in front ofthe mirror to look at herself wearing her uniform and wipes any speck of dust off her badge. Once done, she unlocks her door and takes her apartment key, she sees the fox away spray and considers taking it.

"Eh." Velvet says disregarding the notion and leaving.

"She's going to take it." Nora said before ordering some pancakes.

"Oh, yeah." Yang said leaning in her seat.

"She probably still has fears of foxes." Weiss said taking a sip from a smoothie.

Velvet opens the door again after a moment and takes the spray.

---

At the ZPD office, officers mingle with their friends and talk to their coworkers. Citizens wait for their turn to talk to the officers about what problems they've seen or are going through. A tiger is escorting a wolf wearing a muzzle and handcuffed.

"Come on, he bared his teeth first." The wolf pleaded trying to get out of being charged.

The receptionist is a cheetah happily eating a bowl of cereal.

"Excuse me?"

The cheetah stops eating and looks around trying to find the source of the voice.

"Down here." Velvet said getting him to look over the desk. "Hi." She said with a wave.

"O, m, goodness." The cheetah said setting the bowl down. "They really did hire a bunny. What!? Hee, hee, I gotta tell you, you're even cuter than I thought you'd be." He said with an excited tone and leaned on his elbows.

"Ooh, you probably didn't know, but-" Velvet said pointing to herself. "A bunny can call another bunny cute. But when other animals do it, it's a little…"

"Really, that's surprising." Willow said.

"It's like stereotyping all faunus by their animal traits." Blake said crossing her arms.

"Hate to say it, but you do that all by yourself." Yang said earning a glare from Blake.

"I. Do. Not." Blake said narrowing her eyes at the busty bonde.

"Do I need to give more examples?" Yang asked with a mischievous smirk making Blake nervous.

"It's not just Blake, either." Neptune said gesturing with his thumb to Sun.

"I have never done anything to perpetuate the faunus stereotype." Sun said crossing his arms.

"Likes banana products, swings from high places, climbs said high places." Neptune said counting the examples off his fingers.

"Okay, I get it." Sun said slouching in his seat.

"I am so sorry." The cheetah apologized covering his mouth and holding his palms out. "Me? Benjamin Clawhauser. The guy everyone thinks is just a flabby, doughnut loving cop, stereotyping you. Oh."

"It's ok." Velvet said before noticing something. "Actually, you got. There's uh…" She said trying to point out the doughnut stuck in Benjamin's neck.

"What?" Benjamin said confused.

"In your neck." Velvet said pointing to it. "In the fold, there's…" She said while Benjamin tried to find it with her guidance. Eventually he found it.

"There you went, you little dickens." He said pulling out the half-eaten doughnut and eating it.

"That's disgusting." Weiss said with a disgusted look on her face and puts down her pastry that she was about to eat.

"I wonder how long that's been there?" Nora pondered making Weiss slightly gag as she imagined the doughnut stuck between Clawhauser's neck folds.

"Imagine the taste." Yang whispered to Weiss, making her cover her mouth to try not to throw up as her mind conjured up the taste.

"Yang." Ruby said looking at her sister, knowing that she is messing with the heiress.

"Fine." Yang said crossing her arms and slouching in her seat.

Velvet had a look of shock and her face and laughed nervously. "I should get to roll call. So, which way do I…"

"Oh, bullpen's over there to the left." Benjamin said pointing to it still eating the doughnut.

"Thank you." Velvet said leaving for the bullpen.

"Awww." Benjamin said leaning on his elbow. "That poor little bunny is going to get eaten alive." He said watching her leave. All the other officers looked at Velvet as she walked past them.

"It's like they never saw a bunny before." Velvet said looking at the other cops and shaking her head at them.

"Probably not as a cop." Jaune said stretching in his seat.

"Reminds me of my first day at Beacon." Glynda said pushing up her glasses, remembering her first time arriving at Beacon. Suffice to say she attracted a lot of stares when she was younger.

Velvet entered the bullpen and walked to the open seat at the front of the room. She walked past a lion and a polar bear arm wrestling, the polar bear won with a roar making Velvet jump slightly. She continued walked and jumped onto the seat.

"Hey, Officer Scarlatina." She said with pride to her fellow officer. The rhino looked at her with a bored expression, the rest of the officers look at her. "Ready to make the world a better place?" she asked holding out her fist.

The rhino rolled his eyes and humored her. He pushed his fist against hers and pushed her chair away. Velvet chuckled and shook out her hand.

"Atten-hut!" The officer in the front of the room yelled as the Chief of police entered the room.

The officers chanted and pounded the table as they stood up as the Chief entered.

"Alright, alright! Everybody sit." The Chief told them as he took his place behind the podium. Everyone sat, including Velvet who couldn't see the Chief on account of her height. "I've got three items on the docket. First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room." The Chief said with a serious tone.

"Francine." He said and the person is an elephant who looks nervous as to why she's been called out. "Happy birthday." The Chief said and everyone began cheering and congratulating her. Francine grabbed her fellow officer than had mock punching her and began rubbing the top of his head.

"That looks fun." Nora said before grabbing Jaune and rubbing his head, resulting in his hair sticking out in every direction. Pyrrha chuckled into her hand at the sight of it, even Ren wasn't immune and cracked a smile.

"Ahh!" Ruby yelled when Yang did the same to her. "Yang!" She yelled trying to get free from her sister's grasp but couldn't.

Weiss and Blake smiled at the scene of the sisters playfully fighting. Weiss wondered if her siblings would be the same if they were raised like Ruby's family, playfully fighting and maybe talking to each other for more than a few minutes.

"Look like you're Chief of Police." Willow told James recognizing his voice.

"And a bull. Matches your personality." Qrow said looking at the General of Atlas.

"Actually, he's a buffalo." Gylnda said looking at Qrow who just shrugged and looked back at the screen.

Velvet clapped but was shocked by the roughhousing displayed by her fellow officer.

"Number two, there are some new recruits that I should introduce." The Chief said looking his list, Velvet straitened in her seat ready for her introduction. "But I'm not going too, 'cause I don't care."

All the other officers chuckled at the Chief already used to his antics. Velvet decided to play along and laugh with them.

"Finally, we have fourteen missing mammal cases." The Chief said pointing the board behind him showing all of the missing mammals. "All predators, from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter. And city hall is right up my tail to find them."

Velvet looked at the board with interest as the Chief held out his hand and the officer standing next to the podium handed him a stack of folders.

"This is priority number one." The Chief said before putting on his glasses. "Assignments! Officers Brawnwen, Xio Long, Rose - your teams take missing mammals from the Rainforest District." He said handing the folder to a black furred wolf that tried to grab the folder but couldn't since the lion grabbed it first.

"I'm a wolf." Summer said excited at seeing herself in animal form.

"Looks like I'm a lion." Tai said with a smile at the sight of himself.

"What animal are we?" Qrow asked not seeing himself or his sister and what they looked like as animals.

"Maybe we'll see later on." Summer said also wondering what Qrow and Raven look like as animals. She wondered if they are still birds or bird like.

"I wonder what I look like?" Yang asked with a tilt of her head, probably a lion after her father.

"Same here." Ruby also wondered since her mother is a wolf and her father is a lion. How would that work anyway?

"Officers Port, Oobleck, Torchwick - your teams take Sahara Square." The officers took the folder from the Chief and left the bullpen.

"Officers Belladona, Taurus, Khan - TundraTown." The Chief said handing them the folder. "And finally, our first bunny." He said looking at Velvet since she's the only one left in the room. "Officer Scarlatina."

"I'm a cop?" Sienna said surprised to find out she's working for law enforcement.

"I wonder what you look like?" Kali asked her husband who shrugged. He figured he's a panther.

"Even Adam is a cop." Blake said with amazement. Though she figured if everyone is a mammal then he wouldn't have to resort to being an extremist like the Adam she knows.

"I wonder what Velvet is going to get?" Jaune asked since the chief on screen is holding a single folder.

"Let's find out." Velvet said also wondering.

Velvet straitened in her seat with her hands on the table ready to take on her first assignment.

"Parking duty." The Chief said taking off his glasses and Velvet visibly deflated at her assignment. "Dismissed."

"Parking duty?" Velvet said to herself. "Chief! Chief Ironwood?" She said stopping Ironwood before he could leave. She hopped off the chair and approached him. Ironwood put back on his glasses and looked at her.

"Sir, you said there were fourteen missing mammal cases."

"So?" Ironwood said.

"So, I can handle one." Velvet said before placing her hands behind her back. "You probably forgot. But I was top of my class back at the academy." She said with pride.

"Didn't forget. Just don't care."

"There is only so much a class room can teach you." James said taking a sip of water. "You need real world experience as well."

"He's right." Glynda said looking at her students. "There is only so much we can teach you. The rest you will have to learn through real experience."

"Yeah, you guys will learn when you get assigned a few missions." Coco told her fellow students. "Though from what I hear you already have plenty have outside experience."

"Damn straight." Yang said proudly.

"Yang…" Ruby said embarrassed.

"No need to be embarrassed, Ruby." Weiss told her friend. "The experience we have gathered is valuable."

"You mean fighting Torchwick in a giant robot under a pass." Blake said looking at the heiress. "Or fighting the White Fang in a speeding train that is also a bomb."

"Yes, it is." Weiss said looking at Blake then back to the screen.

"Sir, I'm not just some token bunny." Velvet said.

"Then writing a hundred tickets a day should be easy." Ironwood told her before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

Velvet has a frustrated look on her face and taps her foot multiple times. "A hundred tickets. I'm not gonna write a hundred tickets." She said to herself before a though occurred to her making her brighten up. "I'm gonna write two hundred tickets before noon."

"That's some goal." Ren said impressed at Velvet's dedication.

"Geez, writing two hundred tickets in a day." Nora said moving her wrist in circles causing some popping sounds. "That makes my wrist hurt."

"Thinking about that much writing makes my carpal tunnel syndrome flare up." Ozpin said rubbing his writing hand.

"Something tells me she'll reach it." Jaune said before eating some popcorn and sharing it with Nora.

Velvet put on the orange safety vest over her uniform and got into her car. She checked the mirror and did her seatbelt and started it. She pressed the gas petal and set off. The car moved at a snail's pace even when she floored the gas petal the car refused to go faster.

"Really?" Yang said with a raised eyebrow at the sight of Velvet's car.

"That is slower than the last book in the Ninjas of Love series." Ruby said and Blake quickly moved seats to the other side of Weiss. Far away from Yang who tried to grab her but failed to in time.

"You really need to learn to keep better track of your books." Weiss told Blake seeing the evil eye that Yang is giving to their black themed teammate.

"I know, I know." Black said warily looking at Yang who went back to looking at the screen.

Velvet drove her car checking for parking violations when a parking meter went off. One of her ears perked up pushing her hat to the side. She stopped the car and looked behind her to see that the time limit has expired. She smiled and backed up quickly making sure to turn on the lights and got out. She wrote the violation and printed the tickets, making sure to put it under the windshield wipers.

Another timer expired and she wrote them a ticket and another. She walked up to a car that belonged to a giraffe and as a result she couldn't reach the wipers to place the ticket. She glanced behind her and smiled remembering the move she pulled back at the academy. She ran and jumped off her car and onto a street sign using it as a springboard to launch herself higher. She placed the ticket underneath the wiper before she fell back down to the ground.

One after another, the parking meters expired and Velvet quickly issued them tickets. Moving quickly from car to car she put the tickets under their wipers.

A mouse is carrying a case of doughnuts and walked to his car which is parked in a No Parking zone. He sees the ticket as he reaches for his keys when a strong gust of wind blows the ticket and his car away. He drops the case the doughnuts and quickly runs after his car.

"Oh no." Saphron said seeing the car blow away. "Then again he did park in a 'No Parking' zone."

Adrian laughed at the scene making his mother's smile at them. Saphron tickled him making him laugh more.

"I wonder how he's going to explain that to the insurance company." Winter said.

"No doubt insurance companies know about the hazards for the small cars." Willow said looking at her eldest daughter.

"It must be a pain trying to find it." Jaune said handing the popcorn bowl to Nora who immediately began eating the remaining popcorn.

"There's probably a tracker on it that helps in finding it." Ren said taking a sip from his health smoothie.

More and more parking meters expire and Velvet issues tickets to all the cars as quickly as she can. She looks at the clock and sees that its five minutes to noon and looks at her ticket device and sees that she's issued 200 tickets.

"Boom! Two hundred tickets before noon." She said slapping the screen with pride. The parking meter in front of her expires and she winces looking to her own car, she sighs and writes herself a ticket. "201."

"At least she's responsible." James said impressed that she would write herself a ticket, instead of just ignoring it.

"Same old Vevlet." Coco said throwing an arm around Velvet. "Always following the rules."

"Coco!" Velvet said embarrassed that she would say that about her.

A car horn catches her attention and she looks in the direction it came from. A fox wearing a blue shirt and yellow tie avoids getting hit by a loading truck being driven by a sheep.

"Hey! Watch where you're going fox!" The driver yells before pulling onto the street. The fox shrugs and continues walking.

Velvet watches as the fox walks down the street. Most foxes have an orange reddish hue to their fur, but this fox is different since it has more of a strawberry blonde coat. Though you can see more of the blonde than you can the red.

"That has to be me." Jaune said seeing the blondish fox.

"Talk about being foxy." Ruby said with a smile.

"Not bad." Yang said slightly disappointed that she didn't think of that clever pun and also proud of her little sister.

"It was okay." Weiss said not wanting to admit that it brought a smile to her face, even Blake agreed.

"I wonder what he's like?" Velvet asked wondering what this Jaune is like.

"Let's see." Nora said finished with the popcorn bowl and handing to one of the helper droids.

Velvet watched the fox stop and look around for a moment before an elephant passed by. The fox walked quickly after the elephant entering an ice cream parlor. This bugged her so she crossed the street and looked through the windows.

"Where'd he go?" She said trying to spot the fox she saw earlier and decided to enter.

Behind the counter an elephant is scooping up ice cream with its trunk and putting it into a small cup. The elephant sticks its truck into a bag of peanuts and snorts up a handful before putting the peanuts on the ice cream and then a small cherry on top.

Velvet looks around the store and sees the fox at the counter talking to the manager it seems.

"Listen, I don't know what you're doing skulking around during daylight hours." The manager told the fox and Velvet unbuttoned the holster holding the fox away spray ready to intervene. "But I don't want any trouble. So, hit the road."

"What a di- douche." Nora corrected herself remembering the younger children in the room.

"Reminds me of some store owners and their treatment of the faunus." Sienna said recalling some of the harsh treatment she endured when she was younger.

"Did you experience something similar?" Weiss asked Blake who simply nodded.

"I'm not looking for trouble either sir. I simply want to buy a jumbo pop." The fox said as Velvet slowly approached. "For my little boy." He said gesturing to a smaller fox that has sandy blonde fur and large ears.

"Jaune is a father?!" Pyrrha, Velvet, Nora, and Ruby all shouted at once.

"I have another grandchild." Emilia said excited at the notion of another grandchild.

"Aww, he's adorable." Weiss said smiling at the cuteness of Jaune's son. "Look at those ears."

"I do wonder who the mother is." Ren said looking at the four girls that have a crush on his friend and team leader. Anyone of them could be the mother.

Velvet stopped when she saw the boy. The boy looked at her sucking on a pacifier and wearing a onesie.

"You want the red or the blue pal?" The father said leaning down to face his son. The child walked over to the display case and touched the glass before pointing to the red one.

"Aww." Velvet said rebuttoning the holster and straightening her vest. "Such a…" She said to herself turning to leave.

"Aw, come on kid. Back up." The manager said shooing the kid back with his trunk before turning to face the dad. "Listen buddy, there aren't any fox ice cream joints in your part of town?" He said leaning on the counter and Velvet stopped just before the door, her ears perked up when she heard what the manager said.

"What a dick." Susie Arc said shaking her head at the store owner for his actions, and her sisters agreed.

"This is more like what the faunus deal with in certain situations." Blake said slightly sorrowful and her cat ears flattened against her head.

"I guess predators aren't well liked in Zootopia." Weiss said frowning at the actions of store owner.

"Uh, no, no, there are. It's just my boy." The dad said as his kid stood next to him and he placed a hand on top of his son's head. "This goofy little stinker. He just loves all things elephant. Wants to be one when he grows up."

The son pulled the hood of his onesie up to show that its an elephant onesie with a trunk and small tusks and large flappy ears. He even did a little toot.

"Isn't that adorable?"

"Aww." Velvet said placing a hand over her heart at the touching scene.

"Who the heck am I to crush his little dreams huh?" The dad said looking at his son as he leaned against his dad. "Right?"

"Look, you probably can't read fox. But the sign says 'we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone'." The manager said grabbing the sign on the counter and placing it in front of him to show the dad. "So, beat it."

"Wow…" Yang said at the actions of the store owner.

"Some people are just like that." Emilia said with a frown. She glanced at Ghira and he glanced back. During their relationship they had endured plenty of racist comments and assholes.

"Such is the way of the world." Ghira said sadly having experienced something similar back when he was younger.

Velvet look appalled at what she's seeing.

"You're holding up the line." The customer behind the dad said steeping forward and bumping into the dad and making his son cry.

"Excuse me? Hello?" Velvet said stepping forward towards the counter and stands next to the fox dad.

"Hey! You're gonna have to wait your turn like everyone else." The manager told her. "Meter maid."

"Actually, I'm an officer." Velvet said showing her badge." Just had a quick question. Are your customers aware that they're getting snot and mucus with their cookies and cream?" She asked with a raised voice.

Nearby there is an elephant couple feeding each other ice cream. When the boyfriend heard what Velvet asked, he snorted back up the ice cream onto his date's face.

Adrian and some of the younger Arc sisters laughed at the scene.

"I hate when that happens." Neptune said recalling his first date, of course it wasn't ice cream that he spit. But rather soda when he and his date went to the movies.

"I know." Tai said also thinking back to his awkward date with Raven. Pretty much all the men in the room thought back to their first date. Those that had dated of course.

"He'd better hope she really likes him." Blake said seeing the amount of ice cream on his date's face.

"What are you talking about?" The manager asked curious.

"Well, I don't wanna cause you any trouble." Velvet said taking a step forward. "But I believe that scooping ice cream with an ungloved trunk is a class three health code violation."

The manager turns around to see his employee scooping up ice cream without a glove on his trunk. The employee drops the ice cream back into the container and wipes his trunk on his apron before leaving for the backroom.

"It's kind of a big deal." Velvet said with a chuckle as the manager looked back at her wondering what she wants. "Of course, I could let you off with a warning, if you were to glove those trunks and I don't know. Finnish selling this nice dad and his son a uh…"

The dad and his son looked at the counter while Velvet tried to remember the item that he wanted to buy.

"What was it?" She asked the dad.

"A jumbo pop." The dad said. "Please?"

"A jumbo pop." Velvet said putting her hands in front of her. The son tooted in agreement.

"Fifteen dollars." The managers said with a groan.

"Thank you so much." The dad told the manager before facing Velvet. "Thank you." He told her reaching for his wallet and having a look of horror on his face when he couldn't find it. "Oh no. Are you kidding me? I don't have my wallet." He said before chuckling to himself.

"I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached to my neck." He said. "That's the truth. Oh, boy. I'm sorry pal, gotta be the worst birthday ever. Please don't be mad at me." He said before kissing his son on the forehead and taking his hand.

"Thanks anyway." The dad told Velvet before walking towards the entrance. His son reaching out for the jumbo pop and looking sad.

"Get him the jumbo pop." Ruby cried seeing the sad eyes on Jaune's son.

"Give him the sweets." Nora also cried not wanting to see the sad eyes.

"Look, someone borrowed your tactic." Saphron told Adrian in her arms. Every time they went out, he would look sad whenever he wanted something but couldn't get it. Terra would cave in and get him the item while Saphron shook her head at her wife.

Velvet looks at the father and son before getting a look of determination. She slapped a 20 on the counter. "Keep the change." She told the manager.

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The dad and his son along with Velvet who held his son's hand walked out of the ice cream parlor. The dad carrying the jumbo pop with both hands and propped on his shoulder.

"Officer, I can't thank you enough. So, kind, really." The dad told Velvet. "Can I pay you back?"

"Oh no. it's my treat." Velvet said dismissing the notion of being paid back. "It's just- you know, it burns me up to see folks with such a backwards attitude towards foxes. I just wanna say, you're a real great dad and just uh…a real articulate fella."

"Oh, well that is just high praise." The dad said placing a hand over his chest. "It's rare that I find someone non-patronizing. Officer…"

"Scarlatina." Velvet said introducing herself. "Mr…"

"Arc." The dad said holding out his hand which Velvet shook. "Jaune Arc."

"That is Jaune." Nora said with a smile.

"The blondish fur should have been a giveaway." Ren said to Nora.

"We have four blondes here, we don't know for sure until we get a name." Nora responded and said blondes looked at each other for a moment then back to the screen.

Adrian reached for the screen when he heard Jaune's name. He wanted to be with his uncle, suddenly a plushie of fox Jaune appeared in his hands. Adrian smiled when he saw the plushie and hugged it tightly making his mother smile at it.

"Jaune, can you take him?" Saphron asked her little brother upon seeing Adrian reach out for him. "I think he want to spend time with you."

"Sure." Jaune said getting up and taking Adrian from his sister and sat back down. He held his nephew in his arms and bounced him on his lap making him laugh and hold onto his fox plushie.

All the girls saw this and smiled at the scene. Pyrrha, Ruby, Nora, and Velvet felt their heart strings being pulled tightly when they saw the scene. They couldn't help but imagine him holding their children and playing with them.

Jaune on the other hand felt a shiver.

"And you little guy." Velvet said leaning down to look at his son. "You wanna be an elephant when you grow up? You be an elephant, because this is Zootopia." She said pulling out a sticker badge and placing it on the son's onesie. "Anyone can be anything."

The son thanked her by glowing through the small trunk making a toot sound.

"Ah, boy. I tell him that all the time." Jaune said looking at his son before holding out the jumbo pop. "All right, here you go. Two paws." He said handing the jumbo pop to his son who took it. "Look at that smile. That's a happy birthday smile, alright give her a little bye-bye toot toot."

The son tooted twice and velvet responded with her own toot toot.

"Bye, now." Jaune said waving good bye before walking down the street with his son.

"Bye." Velvet said waving and turning around to resume her duty, this time with a smile on her face.

In Sahara Square, Velvet is writing another ticket and placing it under the car's wipers when she sees the son she met earlier at the ice cream parlor in the reflection of the car windshield. She turns around to see him exiting a van.

"Hey, little toot…toot." Velvet said rushing to greet him but stopped when she saw him placing a jar under a gutter drainage pipe. She sees red liquid being poured into the jar. She looks up to the roof to see Jaune standing next to a melting jumbo pop that she bought for them, when it is almost finished melting Jaune shakes the stick so the last chunk of flavored ice falls off and melts.

"What is he doing?" Weiss asked confused.

"Wasting good sugar." Nora said horrified at the action being shown. All that sugar, wasted!

"And why is the son helping?" Ren asked also confused by what is going on.

Jaune tosses the large wooden stick off to the side and climbs down from roof. Velvet is watching in disbelief as Jaune grabs the two jars full of melted popsicle while his son grabs the stick and carries it inside the van.

Velvet watches as the van starts up and backfires. She sees that the son is driving, barely able to see over the dashboard while Jaune is relaxing the passenger seat.

"Mr. Arc is a terrible father." Glynda said upon seeing him sitting in the passenger seat as his son drives.

"How is he able to reach the peddles?" Sun asked with a slight tilt of his head. "Let alone be able to see."

"Probably a booster seat." Neptune said.

"Or a lot of boxes stacked on top of each other." Jaune said wondering what kind of father he is in this universe.

Velvet tracks the van to Tundra Town and follows the duo as they enter an empty lot. She hides behind a snow bank and peeks over to see the son using his onesie pajamas to make tracks in the snow. After stepping back the son places popsicle sticks down and continues making tracks while Jaune fills the tracks with the melted Popsicle from the jars. She wonders what they are doing and decides to continue following them.

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Jaune drags a cooler filled with frozen popsicles and sets it down holding one. He checks the clock to see that its five-o clock, closing time for the Lemming Brothers Bank. A single file of lemmings exit the bank.

"Popsicles! Get your popsicles!" Jaune shouts holding out a popsicle towards the lemmings. One of the lemmings hears the chant and walks over to Jaune smacking its lips in anticipation. The rest of the lemmings follow their brother.

Jaune holds out his paw to accept the money and hands each of the lemmings a popsicle which they chew down leaving only the handle in record time. They toss the wooden sticks into a recyclable bin and continue walking.

The side door opens after the son kicks it open and pulls three containers full of popsicle sticks out and into the van.

Velvet watches from a bridge above them as they load the sticks into the van. She follows them to construction site run by mouse, she hides in the nearby bushes and watches.

A mice driving a forklift is stopped when Jaune sets down a pallet of popsicle sticks in his path.

"Lumber delivery." Jaune told the mouse in charge.

"What's with the color?" The mouse asks stepping out of the forklift to inspect the lumber and notices the red color.

"The color? That's uh…that's redwood." Jaune said confidently.

Velvet growls and clenches her fist at the sight.

"Wow…" Ren simply said.

"I mean he's not wrong." Nora said with a shrug. "It is redwood."

"You mean stained red." Coco said looking at the bomber ginger who simply shrugged.

"Thirty-nine, and forty. There you go." Jaune said handing his son money and eating a popsicle. "Way to work that diaper big guy." He tells his son as he walks to van and removes the onesie, he throws it inside and jumps off the door to get on the stacks of books in the driver seat.

"What? No kiss bye-bye for daddy?" Jaune said with mock hurt. The son slams the door shut and spits out the pacifier.

"You kiss me tomorrow…I'll bite your face off!" The "son" says with a deep voice before starting the van. Rap plays loudly over the speakers. "Ciao." He said before putting on dark sunglasses and driving off.

"Was not expecting that." Velvet said surprised at the reveal that the son is actually a grown man.

"I don't think any of us were." Coco said also surprised.

Jaune salutes the van as it drives away to revel Velvet waiting with her arms crossed.

"Well…I stood up for you and you lied to me." Velvet said getting Jaune's attention. "Your liar!"

"It's called a hustle, sweetheart and I'm not the liar. He is." Jaune said pointing down the street causing Velvet to look and see nothing. She looked back at Jaune only to find him gone, she looks down the other end of the street and sees him turning around the street corner.

"Hey!" Velvet said chasing after Jaune. "All right slick Arc. You're under arrest." She told him when she caught up with him.

"Really? For what?" Jaune asked walking down the street casually while eating his popsicle as Velvet walks beside him.

"Gee, I don't know. How 'bout selling food without a permit. Transporting undeclared commerce across road lines. False advertising." Velvet listed off the different charges.

"Permit. Receipt of declared commerce, and I didn't falsely advertise anything." Jaune said stopping at a crosswalk and showing her his permits while waiting for the light to turn. "Take care." He said finishing his popsicle.

"You told that mouse the popsicle sticks were redwood." Velvet pointed out.

"That's right. Redwood, with a space in the middle." Jaune said handing her the popsicle sticks and pointed the stained part. "Wood that is red." He said as the light turned green and a herd of cows began walking across the street.

"He knows what he's doing." Sienna said impressed.

"I wonder how long he's been doing this?" Ilia said also impressed that Jaune has all his documents in order.

"A long time would be my guess." James said.

"My baby boy, a common criminal! Where did I go wrong?" Emilia cried into Leon's arm making him smile at her antics. He knew that she would sometimes over dramatize things to put a smile on their kids face. She could be funny when she wanted to be.

"You can't touch me carrots. I've been doing this, since I was born." Jaune told her walking into the crowd.

"You're gonna wanna refrain from calling me carrots." Velvet told him walking after him.

"My bad, I just naturally assumed you came from a little carrot hodunk." Jaune said over his shoulder as he exited the crowd.

"Uh, no. Hodunk is in Deerbrook County. And I grew up in Bunnyburrow." Velvet informed him making Jaune roll his eyes.

"Okay. Tell me if this story sounds familiar?" Jaune said as he passed a fruit stand and swiped a couple of blueberries from their display without the owner never noticing. Velvet saw the action and became confused on what to do since he ate them right away. "Naïve little hick with good grades and big ideas, decides "Hey, look at me. I'm gonna move to Zootopia. Where predators and prey live in harmony, and sing kumbaya."

"Only to find whoopsie, we all don't get along." Jaune said turning to face Velvet and walks backward. "And that dream of becoming a big city cop. Double whoopsie, she's a meter maid." He said now walking the correct way and Velvet remains quiet as she takes in his words. Everything he said matches up to her ambitions.

"And whoopsie number three." Jaune said holding three fingers. "Nobody cares about her or her dreams. And soon enough those dreams die, and our bunny sinks into emotional and literal squalor." He said turning into an alley. "Living in a box under the bridge, till finally she has no choice but to go back home. With that cute fuzzy wuzzie little tail between her legs."

Jaune stopped in front a wooden fence and moved a section to the side. "To become…you're from Bunnyburrow, is that what you said?" He asked turning to her and bending over to look her in the eye. "So, how about a carrot farmer?" He asked standing straight and leaving the alley. "That sound about right?"

"Jaune is being a dick." Ruby said and everyone agreed.

"I wonder what happened that made him adopt that view." Ren said wondering about what happened to Jaune.

"Maybe we'll find out later." Velvet said also curious about his past.

"I hope it's nothing to bad." Jaune said holding onto Adrian so he wouldn't fall off his lap.

Velvet is shocked that he would even suggest such a thing and went to confront him. She stepped out of the alley and almost got stepped on by a passing rhino. She quickly ran out of his path and breathed easily when she wasn't in immediate danger.

"Careful! Or else it won't be your dreams getting crushed." Jaune called out walking down the street.

"Hey! Hey!" Velvet yelled as she ran after him. "No one tells me what I can or can't be." She told when she finally caught up to him making him stop. "Especially some jerk, who never had the guts to try to be anything more than a popsicle hustler."

"Alright, look." Jaune said leaning down so he's face to face with Velvet. "Everyone comes to Zootopia. Thinking they can be anything they want, well you can't. You can only be what you are." He said standing straight and pointing to himself. "Sly fox, dumb bunny." He then pointed to Velvet.

"I'm not a dumb bunny." Velvet said with determination unaware that she is slowly sinking.

"Right…and that's not wet cement." Jaune said pointing to the ground. Indeed, Velvet is standing in wet cement and the construction crew is giving her disgruntled looks for stepping into their work. "You'll never be a real cop." He told her as he walked around the wet cement and continued on his way.

Velvet tried to get out but couldn't so she watched him leave.

"You're a cute meter maid though. Maybe a supervisor one day!" Jaune yelled to her and waved as he disappeared around the street corner. "Hang in there."

Velvet still had her look of determination for a moment and sighed thinking back on everything he said.

"He must have really gotten to her." Weiss said seeing Velvet's shoulders hunch and her posture changed.

"Sadly, there are people like that in the world." Glynda said with a slight shake of her head.

"The world isn't perfect." Ozpin said with experience.

Velvet walked back to her apartment and stepped onto the welcome mat that she placed outside her door. Her feet is covered in dried cement, thankfully she managed to free herself with the help from the construction workers. She apologized multiple times to them as she left. She unlocked the door to her apartment and opened it, the door swung open with a creak showing her small dingy apartment.

Velvet sighed as she entered making sure to close the door behind her. She set her notebook and phone on the desk, making sure to turn on the small lamp. She then turned on the radio on her clock.

"Everybody hurts."

Velvet changed the station.

"All by myself."

She changed the station again.

"You can't do nothing right."

Velvet changed the station wondering why every station is playing depressing songs.

"I'm a loser."

Velvet's eyes widen when she heard the song and changed the station quickly to station that played classical music. The music of a piano playing filled her small apartment.

"Wow, did everyone call in to have the most depressing music play." Yang said slouching in her seat.

"I believe it is merely coincidence." Penny said holding a mug of chai tea that she ordered earlier.

"It could also represent her inner turmoil." Neptune said after eating a cookie. "No doubt she's thinking of everything Jaune told her."

"Nep here is a film lover. Knows everything there is to know about films." Sun said throwing an arm around Neptune.

"Really?" Weiss asked looking at Neptune.

"I enjoy films, ever since my mom took me to see my first one." Neptune explained with a smile as he remembered his first movie.

Velvet watched her diner spinning in the microwave slowly. Once done she took out her Carrots for One meal and set it on the desk. She removed the cover and saw that a small carrot lay in the center of the large package. Velvet groaned and closed the cover and dropped the container in the trash bin next to her desk.

"I hate every time that happens to me." Ren said. "The product is never the same as they advertise."

"Exactly, it's very annoying." Ruby said from her spot. "The bag clearly says double chocolate cookies. But what's inside? Single chocolate chip cookies."

"Are you talking about the time you came back complaining about false advertising?" Weiss asked recalling the moment when Ruby barged into their room complaining about how the products should be what the advertisements say.

"We shall not talk about it." Ruby told her partner with a stern voice

Her phone rang and she looked at the caller id and saw that her parents are calling her. She groaned before putting on a smile and accepting the video call.

"Oh, hey. It's my parents." She said trying to sound surprised to see them.

"Oh, there she is. Hi sweetheart." Her mom said on the other side of the screen.

"Hey there, Vel." Her father said with a chuckle. "How's your first day on the force?"

"It was really great." Velvet said with a forced smile.

"Yeah, everything you ever hoped for?" Meg asked.

"Mmm, absolutely and more. Everyone's so nice and I feel like I'm making a difference." Velvet told him not noticing that her father is squinting in the background.

"Wait a second." Will said leaning closer to the screen. "Holy cripes Meg, look at that."

Meg leaned closer. "Sweet heavens, Velvet. Are you a meter maid?"

"Oh, no, no, no, no" Velvet said realizing that she's still wearing her safety vest. "This is just a temporary thing."

"Oh, it's the safest job on the force."

"Oh, she's not a real cop. Our prayers have been answered!" Will yelled with joy making Velvet sigh.

"Wow." Velvet said surprised that her parents on screen are thankful that she's a meter maid. She is also thankful that her actual parents are supportive of her.

"They still don't believe she can make it as a cop." Jaune said while bouncing Adrian on his knee making him laugh.

"Glorious day."

"Meter maid, meter maid, meter maid!" Will chanted

"Dad, dad…dad!' Velvet shouted quieting her father. "It's been a really long day. I should…"

"You get some rest." Meg said making room for Will.

"Those meters aren't going to maid themselves." Will said before Meg ended the call.

"Bye-bye." Velvet said sounding tired and set her phone down. Her ears drooped as she leaned back in her chair when loud banging on the wall behind her startled her.

"Hey! You want to turn down that depressing music!" Her neighbor shouted and Velvet turned the radio off.

"Leave the meter maid alone! Didn't you hear her conversation? She feels like a failure!"

Velvet groaned and put her face in her hands.

"Oh, shut up!"

"You shut up!"

"You shut up!"

"One of the downsides to having nosey neighbors and thin walls." Emilia said having had both when she had her first apartment.

"Kind of like having Team RWBY for neighbors." Pyrrha said.

"What?" Ruby cried out in horror as she looked at Pyrrha with shock. "We are good neighbors."

"The barking from your dog, the shouting from the time Blake and Weiss were discussing the White Fang." Pyrrha said listing off the various incidents where Team RWBY could be heard through the walls. "Then there is Yang's music-"

"What's wrong with my music?" Yang asked turning in her seat.

"You sometimes play it too loud." Ren said adding onto what Pyrrha is saying. "It's distracting at times."

"He's right." Weiss said looking at Yang. "We need to be considerate to our neighbors."

"Tomorrow is another day." Velvet told herself bringing her face out of her hands and reassuring herself.

"Yeah, but it might be worse!"

---

The next day Velvet is back on parking duty and issuing tickets to cars. She puts a ticket on a car and walks to another car to issue it a ticket. The diver of the first car comes back to see the ticket and grabs it from the wipers and looks at it.

"I was thirty seconds over." He yells at Velvet making her wince as she writes another ticket.

---

"Yeah, you're a real hero, lady." A female mouse told her while waving the ticket.

---

Another ticket issued and another angry citizen.

"My mommy said she wishes you were dead." A child said while holding her mother's hand as her mother crushed the ticket in her other hand.

"It's amazing how quickly a job can go from exciting to boring and dull." Ghira said with a knowing smile having gone through the same thing.

"Nobody likes parking tickets." Yang said.

"Especially when I have to pay them." Tai said looking at his daughter.

"I told you I meant to pay them." Yang told her father. "You didn't need to pay it."

"And I had to pay them after you forgot. Even after I wrote it on the calendar." Tai said. He loved his daughters but they could be so forgetful at times.

Velvet walked slowly back to her car dejectedly and sat in the seat. She lightly banged her head against the steering wheel.

"I am a real cop. I am a real cop. I am a real cop." She said still banging her head against the steering wheel unaware that a weasel wearing a white tank top and shorts ran out of the store in front of her holding a duffel bag.

"Hey! Hey!" The manager yelled chasing after the thief and sees Velvet. "You! Bunny!" He yelled going up to her car.

"Sir, if you have a grievance. You may attest your citation in traffic court." She told him thinking that he's angry about the ticket she wrote him.

"What are you talking about? My shop…it was just robbed." He said pointing to his shop then to the thief who is running down the street with the duffel bag over his head. "Look, he's getting away."

"Well, are you a cop or not?" The manager asked shaking the car and Velvet out of her stupor.

"Oh? Yes, yes!" Velvet said with excitement before jumping out of the car. "Don't worry sir, I got this!" She yelled chasing after the thief. She tossed aside her hat and removed her safety vest as she chased the thief down an alley.

"It's her time to shine." Coco said proud of her friend.

"She gets to put her training to use." Pyrrha said anxious to see what she can do.

"Yeah, exciting chase scene." Yang yelled with glee.

"Stop! Stop in the name of the law!" She ordered the thief who looked back and saw her slowly catching up.

"Catch me if you can. Cotton tail." The thief taunted picking up the pace and running into a crowded plaza with Velvet still on his tail.

The thief stopped quickly when a police cruiser cut off his path and dropped the bag. He quickly recovered and grabbed the bag and ran under the cruiser.

"Coming through." He said continuing his run.

"This is Officer Mchorn. We got a 10-31." The officer said to dispatch as he got out of the car and looked at the fleeing suspect.

"I got dibs!" Velvet yelled jumping over the car and surprising the officer as she continued her pursuit. "Officer Scarlatina, I am in pursuit. Whoo-hoo." She shouted with arms raised eye.

"She is way too happy about this." James said surprised at her joy.

"This is probably a dream come true for her." Willow said holding a glass of water in her hand. "Her first act as a police officer."

"The same thing happened to me when I first helped as a huntress." Summer said with a fond smile. "It was amazing."

"Wasn't the village destroyed?" Tai asked his wife.

"Yeah, but we saved the populace." Summer said with a happy sigh at the memory.

"Now I know where Ruby gets it from." Weiss mumbled to herself.

The thief avoided being hit by a passing car and looked behind to see Velvet still on his tail. He looked forward and saw the entrance to Little Rodentia which was small and the larger cops couldn't follow. He smiled as he tossed the bag over the fence and quickly crawled through the small hole and caught the bag. He laughed as he continued running.

Velvet jumped and slide through the small opening. Once inside she looked for the suspect and saw the bag over the small building. "You!" The thief panicked and took off again. "Freeze!"

"Hey! Meter maid, wait for the real cop!" The officer driving the police cruiser yelled as Velvet chased the suspect.

"Stop!" Velvet yelled making sure to not step on any of the mouse as she ran through the wide streets.

The thief saw the small cars and jumped on them, using them as skates to increase his speed. The poor drivers screamed as they lost control of their cars. The thief turned to mock Velvet as he skated away. He discarded the car skates and entered a narrow alley between buildings and climbed on the roofs. Velvet hopped up just in time to see him leap off the roofs and onto a train track. She saw that his kick knocked over one of the buildings and it toppled over causing a domino effect.

---

Inside one of the buildings a mouse is running on exercise wheel when he feels the building tilt. All of his furniture slides to one side.

---

Velvet acted quickly and dropped between the buildings and used her legs to push the buildings in the other direction, correcting them. Once done she climbs down to street level and sees all the mouse that live in the building running around frantically screaming.

"Coming through, sorry, excuse me." She said as she picked her path through the crowd, trying to avoid stepping on any of them. She climbed onto the train tracks and heard the warning horn, she looked down the track and saw the thief riding a train coming straight for her. Velvet screamed and jumped off the tracks just in time to avoid being hit.

"Bon voyagee, flat foot!" The thief yelled and chuckled to himself when he lost sight of the cop. He looked forward and saw a bridge connecting two buildings. He ducked under the bridge and saw more elaborate bridges coming up. He fit himself through the narrow gaps forcing himself to make weird poses just to avoid them.

He saw the cop hanging upside down off the last bridge.

The children laughed at the various poses that the thief did to avoid the many bridges. Adrian laughed loudly at the scene making Jaune and his team smile at his antics.

"He thought he lost her but nope." Ruby said with a smile at the criminal getting caught.

"I wonder how she is going to catch him." Blake wondered since Velvet is hanging upside down.

Velvet grabbed him by the throat and spin around on the bridge before she let him go. The thief landed next to a doughnut shop, he groaned as he shook off his confusion and saw Velvet running toward him and his duffel bag.

"Have a doughnut, coppa!" He shouted kicking the large doughnut off the shop and towards Velvet.

Velvet screamed as she ducked under the large doughnut and looked behind her to see the doughnut bouncing down the street.

---

"Oh, my gawd, did you see those leopard print jeggings?" A female mouse told her friends as they walked out of a name brand clothing store. The friends screamed at something behind her and ran off. The mouse turned to see the giant doughnut approaching her, she screamed as the doughnut grew closer.

Before the doughnut could land it stopped just above her head. She looked up to see Velvet holding the doughnut. "I love your hair." She told the mouse.

"Oh, thank you." The mouse replied.

"A bit much for my tastes." Coco said seeing the hairstyle.

"Maybe you should have the same style." Ruby told her sister who looked shocked at the notion.

"There are two styles for me." Yang said shaking her hair out. "Down and in a ponytail."

"If you want I can style it." Summer offered and Yang pretended to think about before agreeing to it. She missed the times when Summer would style her hair when she was younger and Ruby was sleeping.

Tai smiled at two as memories of when Yang was younger and Summer was just settling into her role as a mother. He hoped they can return to those days even for a little bit.

The thief laughed as he picked up the duffel bag full of stolen goods. "Come to papa." He said before a shadow was cast on him and he looked up to see Velvet holding the doughnut above her head and brought it down.

---

"Okay, your gonna have to patient and wait in line. Just like everyone else, Mrs. Otterton, okay?" Clawhauser told a distraught window when the sound of the front doors being forced open made him jump.

In rolled in the giant doughnut with the thief stuck in the middle. The doughnut rolled until it hit the desk and fell to the side. Clawhauser looked at the doughnut curious.

"I popped the weasel!" Velvet said proudly standing next to the doughnut and adopting a heroic pose.

"Scarlatina!" Chief Ironwood yelled from the upper balconies surprising Velvet a bit since she jumped. She looked up and saw the Chief pointing to his office.

"Uh Oh." One of the officers in the background said.

"She's in trouble." Nora sang at the sight of the Chief of police.

"For what? She didn't do anything wrong, except for her job." Ruby said wondering why the Chief is angry with her.

"He's probably looking for an excuse to suspend her or worse, fire her." Weiss said to her partner.

"Abandoning your post, inciting a scurry, reckless endangerment of rodents." Chief Ironwood said listing off the offenses that Velvet caused. "But to be fair – you did stop a master criminal from stealing two dozen moldy onions." He said bringing up the bag and showing the contents to Velvet. True to his word the bag is filled with moldy onions.

"Mmm, hate to disagree with you, sir." Velvet said after seeing the contents of the bag. "But those aren't onions. Those are a crocus variety called Midnicampum holichithiu. They're a Class C botanical, sir. Well, I grew up in a family where plant husbandry was king of a thing…" She said proud of her background.

"Shut your tiny mouth now!" Ironwood said putting the bag away.

"Sir, I got the bad guy. That's my job!" Velvet said defending her actions.

"Your job is putting tickets on parked cars!"

"Because you gave her that job!" Velvet shouted at the screen.

"I get the feeling that the Chief doesn't like her." Jaune said holding Adrian with one arm so he could take a drink of water.

"I think it stems from her favoritism from the Mayor and the fact that he transferred her to his station. Without consulting him." Winter said knowing the feeling. When she first entered the military, many disliked her because they assumed she would get special treatment just because she comes from the SDC. It took her months to prove her place in the Atlas military.

"Chief, uh, Mrs. Otterton's here to see you again." Clawhauser said over the intercom.

"Not now." Ironwood replied.

"Okay, I just didn't know if you wanted to take it this time. She seems really upset…"

"NOT! NOW!" Ironwood yelled into the intercom making sure to punctuate one word at a time.

"Sir, I don't wanna be a meter maid." Velvet said as her ears flattened. "I wanna be a real cop."

"Do you think the Mayor asked what I wanted when he assigned you to me?" Ironwood said now fuming.

"But, sir, if-"

"Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true!" Ironwood told her before leaning on his desk to tower over her. "So, let. It. Go."

The door to his office opens and Mrs. Otterton enters. "Chief Ironwood, please! Five minutes of your time, please!"

Clawhauser enters the room after her panting hard. "I'm sorry, sir… I tried to stop her, she's super slippery." He said in between pants and Ironwood gestures for him to leave. "I gotta go sit down…" He said as he left the office holding his lower back.

"Ma'am, as I've told you, we're doing everything we can." Ironwood said getting out of chair and approaching the distraught widow.

"My husband has been missing for ten days. His name is Emmitt Otterton." Mrs. Otterton said holding up a family photo for Velvet to see.

"Yes, I know." Ironwood told her.

"He's a florist. We have two beautiful children. He would never just disappear."

Velvet looked at the photo of the happy family and her mind substituted her own family in the photo.

"Ma'am, our detectives are very busy."

"I wonder how long they've been working on this case." Weiss pondered.

"I wanna say a few weeks." Pyrrha said before getting distracted by Adrian who reached for her hair? She looked at Adrian and saw that he wasn't interested in her hair but rather her circlet, smiling gently she removed the golden circlet and handed it to Adrian.

Adrian held the Jaune plushie in one hand and Pyrrha's circlet in the other. He looked at the golden circlet and giggled as he put it on the plushie. Pyrrha smiled at the scene and patted Adrian's head. Jaune also smiled at the heartwarming scene.

"Please! There's gotta be somebody to find my Emmitt." Mrs. Otterton pleaded with Ironwood.

"Mrs. Otterton-"

"I will find him." Velvet said getting down from the chair.

"Oh, thank you!" Mrs. Otterton said both happy and grateful that someone is going to find her missing husband. She rushes over to Velvet and gives her a hug. "Bless you, bless you, little bunny."

Velvet is mildly surprised by the hug and she shakes it off and returns the hug with a smile. Ironwood grunted at Velvet.

"Take this, find my Emmitt. Bring him home to me and my babies, please." Mrs. Otterton said handing the photo to Velvet who took it.

"Ahem!" Ironwood said getting both their attention. "Mrs. Otterton, please wait out here." He said holding the door open.

"Of course. Oh, thank you both so much." Mrs. Otterton said as she left the office to wait outside.

"One second." Ironwood said closing the door and turning to face Velvet. He is mad that he can be seen grinding his teeth. "You're fired."

"What!?" Nora yelled at the screen. "Why? For doing her job!"

"He really doesn't like her." Pyrrha said stretching her legs. "Something I can relate too."

"Probably has to do with the fact she's a bunny." Blake said holding a cup of tea. "I've known of faunus officers who are treated like she is."

"They get assigned the crap assignments. And are generally relegated to desk work." Kali explained having a friend who works for the Mistral police department.

"One misstep and they get fired too." Sienna said knowing full well the plight of faunus in the police force.

"What?! Why?" Velvet asked after putting the picture away.

"Insubordination!" Ironwood said with a finger raised at her. "Now I'm going to open this door and you're going to tell that otter that you're a former meter maid with delusions of grandeur who will not be taking the case." He told her before opening the door to revel Assistant Mayor Goodwitch shaking Mrs. Otterton's hand.

"I just heard Officer Scarlatina is taking the case." Goodwitch said.

"Assistant Mayor Goodwitch!" Ironwood said surprised to see the Mayor outside his office.

"The mammal inclusion initiative is really starting to pay off." Goodwitch said as she took out her phone and started texting. "Mayor Lionheart is just gonna be so jazzed!"

"No, no. Let's not tell the mayor just yet!" Ironwood said trying to stop Goodwitch.

"And sent it, and it is done, so I did do that." Goodwitch said to herself as she entered the office. Chief Ironwood facepalmed annoyed. "All right, well, I'd say the case is in good hands. Us little guys really need to… stick together, right?" She said holding Vevlet's hands.

"It pays to have friends in high places." Ozpin said and some agreed, while others didn't.

"At least she gets to keep her job and she gets to work the case." Ruby said excitedly. She loved cop shows.

"Seems like a big task for a newbie to handle." Jaune said taking another sip.

"Are you really one to comment?" Yang asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yang…" Ruby admonished her older sister.

"It's fine Ruby." Jaune told her with a smile making her smile back.

"Sticking up for your crush, huh?" Yang said with a smirk making Ruby blush and trying to deny it.

"Like glue." Velvet agreed making Goodwitch laugh.

"Good one. Yeah. Just call me if you ever need anything, okay." Goodwitch told her patting her hand. "You've always got a friend at City Hall, Velvet. Alright. Bye-bye!" She said as she left the office with Mrs. Otterton.

Chief Ironwood smiled as he closed the door behind them and sighed. "I will give you 48 hours." He told her holding up a finger.

"Yes!" Velvet said stoked and excited.

"That's two days to find Emmitt Otterton."

"Okay."

"But! You strike out, you resign." Ironwood said stating his terms.

"Two days to solve a case they haven't been able to solve for how many weeks!" Blake said stunned at what the chief's offer. "That's just setting her up for failure."

"Plus, she's only two days into her new job." Kali said. "They probably haven't put her into the system yet."

"And something tells me she won't be getting much help from the other cops." Ren said while handing his tea cup to the helper droid to take.

"You never know. Some may help her." Jaune said while trying to stop Adrian from getting away from him. "Clawhauser seems to be the only one who likes her."

"You never know, she might make some friends with some of them." Weiss said.

"Oh. Uh… Okay. Deal." Velvet said after thinking about it.

"Splendid." Ironwood said opening the door. "Clawhauser will give you the complete case file."

---

Vevlet goes to Clawhauser's desk, where he gives her the case file. "Here you go! One missing otter." He said before going back to his lunch which is a bottle of soda and a chocolate covered doughnut.

Velvet opens the folder and sees only a single paper in the file. "That's it?!"

"Yikes! That the smallest case file I've seen." Clawhauser said seeing the small file. "Leads: none, witnesses: none, and you're not in the computer system yet, so resources: none!" He said before laughing briefly. "I hope you didn't stake your career on cracking this one!"

Velvet's ears drooped when she heard what Clawhauser said and cleared her thoughts to look at the case file. She brushed off some doughnut sprinkles that had come from Clawhauser's doughnut.

"Okay. Last known sighting." She said looking at the photo and noticing something that she can't quite make out. Beside her Clawhauser is drinking the last contents of his soda through a straw until the only thing is slurping noises which annoy Velvet.

"I hate when people do that in theaters." Yang said before a slurping sound can be heard behind them. Everyone turned to look and saw Nora drinking a fountain drink with a straw and continuing to drink from the empty container. Trying to get the rest of the drink inside the container.

"What?" Nora asked when she finally saw everyone looking at her.

"Are you done?" Yang asked.

"Just about." Nora replied before going back to try and slurp any of the remaining soda. She held up a finger as the slurping grew louder making some smile at the humor of the scene, while others looked annoyed at her. Once done she made an exaggerated sigh of content.

"Now, I'm done." Nora said.

Velvet looks at Clawhauser then to the glass bottle in his hand, she gets an idea. "Can I just borrow… thank you." She said taking the empty glass bottle and looks through it before using it as a magnifying glass. Clawhauser still has the straw in his mouth.

"Does that really work?" Ruby wondered.

"I don't know." Blake said also wondering if such a thing is possible.

Velvet sees that Emmitt is holding a familiar looking popsicle in the photo. "Popsicle…"

"The murder weapon…" Clawhauser said taking the straw out of his mouth.

"Really?" Weiss asked with a raised eyebrow at the notion of a popsicle being used as a weapon.

"You never know." Yang said.

"At this point I wouldn't be surprised." Weiss said casting a look at Spart before going back to watching the screen.

"That means that Jaune met the missing otter." Nora said. "That means this is going to be a buddy cop scenario. The by the rule cop and the rogue criminal team up to solve a case."

"Somehow that makes sense." Neptune said seeing how Jaune is in the photo of the last known sighting.

A memory triggered in Velvet. "Get your popsicle…" She said recalling where she heard it from and who.

"Yeah, 'cause that…" Clawhauser said in understanding then got confused. "What does that mean?"

"It means…" Velvet moved the bottle to the edge of the photo and sees a familiar tail. "I have a lead."

"Time to recruit the criminal to help." Sun said.

"And kick off the start to a great adventure." Nora proclaimed.

"You seem into this." Coco stated looking at the ginger girl.

"Of course, I love cop shows." Nora said.

"Me too." Ruby said holding her hand out for a high five from Nora.

"Same." Neptune and Sun said at the same time.

Jaune is pushing a stroller down the street with his partner in crime sleeping and snoring loudly. Jaune closes the lid on the stroller when a passerby gave him a look for the loud snoring. Velvet drives up next to the duo.

"Hi! Hello!" Velvet said from her car. "It's me again."

"Hey, it's Officer Toot-toot!" Jaune said casually still walking and Velvet continued to drive alongside them.

"Ha-ha-ho… No. Actually, it's Officer Scarlatina and I'm here to ask you some questions about a case." Velvet said taking out her notebook and carrot pen.

"What happened, meter maid? Did someone steal a traffic cone? It wasn't me." Jaune said walking faster and leaving an annoyed Velvet behind. She blocks the sidewalk with her car and blares the siren. "Hey, Carrots, you're gonna wake the baby." He said pointing to his sleeping partner. "I gotta get to work."

Jaune resumed pushing the stroller and was blocked by Velvet.

"This is important, sir. I think your ten dollars work of popsicles can wait." Velvet told him holding her notebook and pen.

"Ha! I make two hundred bucks a day, fluff." Jaune said slightly offended. "Three hundred and sixty-five days a year since I was twelve. And time is money. Hop along."

"200 hundred a day. Where does that money go?" Weiss asked confused since Jaune on screen should be well off.

"He probably splits it with his partner." Ozpin said. "Or paying back someone."

"Such is the life of a criminal." Glynda said holding a tea cup.

"Please, just look at the picture." Velvet said showing him a picture of Emmitt eating a popsicle. "You sold Mr. Otterton that popsicle, right? Do you know him?"

"I know everybody." Jaune replied before smiling. "And I also know that somewhere, there's a toy store missing its stuffed animal. So why don't you get back to your box?" He said and Velvet's mood drop before becoming serious.

"Fine." Velvet said putting the picture away. "Then we'll have to do this the hard way." She said and a second later a clink is heard and Jaune looks down to see a parking boot attacked the stroller wheel.

"That's one way to get his attention." Pyrrha said holding a bag of spicy chips that she ordered.

"One thing about Vel. She's very persistent." Coco said with a smile putting a hand on Velvet's shoulder.

"Coco." Velvet said once again embarrassed by her friend's actions.

"What? You are." Coco replied with a warm smile at her friend.

"Did you just boot my stroller?" Jaune asked while seeing the boot.

"Jaune Arc, you are under arrest!" Velvet declared.

"For what." Jaune asked amused and leaning on the stroller. "Hurting you feewings?"

"Felony tax evasion." Velvet said with a sly smile and Jaune's smiled dropped and his fox ears drooped slightly. "Yeeaah… two hundred dollars a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year since you were twelve, that's two decades. So, times twenty which is… one million four hundred and sixty thousand – I think, I mean I am just a dumb bunny." She said with a chuckle before getting serious again.

"But we are good at multiplying." Velvet said turning a page in the folder in her hands. "Anyway, according to your tax forms, you reported, let me see here, zero!" Jaune's face freezes in fear. "Unfortunately, lying on a federal form is a punishable offense. Five years jail time."

"She's good." Yang said impressed at Velvet.

"Get him off balance." Nora said. "And catch him saying something that can be used against him."

"Well, it's my word against yours." Jaune said crossing his arms as Velvet closed the folder and held out her carrot pen.

"Two hundred bucks a day, Fluff. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year since I was twelve."

"Actually, it's your word against yours." Velvet said rotating the pen to show small speakers and a button. Turns out the pen also doubles as a recorder. "And if you want this pen, you're going to help me find this poor missing otter, or the only place you'll be selling popsicles is the prison cafeteria." Velvet said before smiling and placing a hand on her hip.

"It's called a hustle, sweetheart." She said smugly while Jaune looks at her with a stunned look.

"Damn! The hustler got hustled." Sun said.

"That was great to see." Yang said with a wide smile.

"She's a quick learner." Coco said proud of Velvet for hustling Jaune like that.

"That was amazing to see." Nora said with a chuckle as Jaune's face fell from confident to stunned.

"She hustled you." Jaune's partner said opening the stroller lid and laughing. "She hustled you good!" He shouted and climbed the stroller so he's face to face to Jaune and grabs his tie. "You're a cop now, Jaune! You're gonna need one of these." He said removing the police sticker and slaps it on Jaune's shirt and hops off the stroller.

"Have fun working with the fuzz." He said while laughing as he walked off leaving Velvet and Jaune alone.

"Start talking." Velvet demanded.

"I don't know where he is, I only saw where he went." Jaune said after sighing about his situation.

"Great! Let's go!" Velvet said getting into her car. Jaune grins when he remembers where Emmitt went.

"It's not exactly a place for a cute little bunny." Jaune told her with a grin.

"Don't call me cute! Get in the car." Velvet said annoyed.

"Okay, you're the boss." Jaune said with a smirk and left the stroller behind to get into the car.

"Why do I get the feeling Jaune is planning something." Pyrrha said slightly worried upon seeing the sly grin that Jaune has.

"Oh, he definitely is." Emilia said recognizing that same look in Leon.

Velvet enters an office through a bead curtain door. Calm music plays in the background and she walks to the desk where a yak is meditating.

"Ohm… Ohm… Ohm…" The yak chanted. His hair is in dreadlocks and flies buzzed around his head.

"Ahem. Hi. Uh, hello." Velvet said trying to get the yak's attention.

"Ohm… Ohm… Ohm…" The yak continued his chant growing louder.

"Hello? Hello? Hello!" Velvet said with a raised voice finally getting the yak out of his mediation. He shook his head making the flies buzz around his head. He removes the hair over his eyes and looks down to see Velvet.

"Hmm?" The yak asked.

"Hello! My name is…" Velvet said introducing herself before the yak cut her off.

"Ohh, y'know, I'm gonna hit the pause button right there. 'cause we're all good on bunny scout cookies." The yak said leaning over the desk.

"You can clearly see that I'm a cop." Velvet said pointing to the screen. "Why does everyone assume that I'm not a cop?"

"Could be because of the small stature." Blake said looking at the screen. "Or the fact that bunnies aren't seen in the police force."

"Plus, he assumed that Vel is selling cookies because she's a bunny." Coco said with a sigh at the obvious stereotyping.

"Could be he's just high." Li said noticing that the yak sounded like he's on drugs.

"Yeah, he does sound stoned." An said also noticing the tone of his voice.

"Doesn't excuse him for mistaking me for a girl scout." Velvet said crossing her arms.

"Maybe we shouldn't read too much into it." Jaune suggested. "It's obvious that it has deeper meaning and is meant to be light. As long as it doesn't go overboard."

"Agreed, we can discuss it after." Bart said proud of his student and taking another sip of coffee.

"Uh… no. I'm Officer Scarlatina, ZPD." Velvet said showing her badge. "I'm looking for a missing mammal; Emmitt Otterton, right here." She said pulling out the family photo and passing it to the yak who took it. "Who may have frequented this establishment?"

The yak gasps when he sees the photo and sneezes making the flies buzz away and come back. "Yeah, old Emmitt!" He said chuckling and handing the picture back to Velvet, who wipes off the snot. "Haven't seen him in a couple of weeks. But hey, you should talk to his yoga instructor. I'd be happy to take you back."

The yak walked out from behind his desk to a set of doors. Velvet and Jaune follow.

"Oh, thank you so much, I'd appreciate that more than you can imagine. It'd be such an-" Velvet sees that yak isn't wearing any clothes and quickly covers her eyes. "OHHH, you are naked."

"Is he a nudist?" Penny asked.

"I think so…" Ruby said unsure since he isn't wearing clothes but at the same time still has fur. Does that count as being nude?

"Guess Emmitt has a freaky side." Yang said.

"I wonder if his wife knows about his nudist ways." Penny asked with a tilt of her head.

"Huh?" Yak said turning around to face Velvet. "Oh, for sure, we're a naturalist club!" He said with a chuckle.

"Yeah, in Zootopia, anyone can be anything." Jaune said kneeling down. "And these guys? They be naked." He told her as yak opens the doors.

"Nangi's just on the other side of the pleasure pool." Yak said.

Velvet slowly turned around and her eyes widen and her jaw drops in horror at the sight of naked animals lying around a pool. She covers her mouth as her eyes move to a pool where naked hippos are playing with a beach ball. Jaune is enjoying her horrified reaction as Velvet sees bears scratching their backs against trees and pigs wallowing in the mud.

"Oh, boy. Does this make you uncomfortable?" Jaune asked Velvet. "Because if so, there's no shame in calling it quits." He said snapping Velvet out of her shock and enters the club with determination.

"Yes, there is."

"Boy, that's the spirit." Jaune said sarcastically as he followed after her.

"Yeah, some mammals say the naturalist life is weird, but you know what I say is weird?" The yak asked while passing a volleyball game in progress. "Clothes on animals!" He said leading Velvet to a yoga class being taught by an elephant. Velvet winces when she sees the yoga pose the class is currently in.

"I am glad that there aren't people in this world." Ruby said thankful that the people are mammals.

"Me too." Yang said wanting to protect her from NSFW material for a while.

"I need to get back into yoga." Sienna said feeling bad that she stopped doing yoga shortly after she took over the White Fang. The paperwork, planning, recruiting, and the stress didn't leave a lot of time for yoga. Not to mention the added stress of Adam and his issues with Blake.

"There is a gym for everyone to use." Spart told the audience. "As is the arena for spars and training."

"Cool, I don't want my skills to grow dull here." Yang said and all the students agreed. They need to keep their skills sharp for when they get to the new world.

"Here we go. As you can see, Nangi's an elephant, so she'll totally remember everything." Yak said walking up to the yoga class and stepping a few feet away to not disturb the flow of the class. "Hey, Nangi! These dudes have some questions about Emmitt the Otter.

"Who?" Nangi asked.

"Uh, Emmitt Otterton. Been coming to your yoga class for, like, six years." Yak said and Velvet showed her the picture while avoiding looking at her nudity.

"I have no memory of this beaver." Nangi said with a shake of her head.

"He's an otter, actually." Velvet clarified.

"He was here a couple of Wednesdays ago, remember?" Yak asked blowing his hair out of his face.

"No." Nangi said shifting into a new pose.

"Yeah, he was wearing a green cable-knit sweater vest and a new pair of corduroy slacks." Yak said and Velvet looked at him surprised that he remembers that much when the elephant couldn't. she quickly took out her notebook and began taking notes.

"There's a flip. The elephant is forgetful and the yak who sounds stoned remembers everything." Neptune said with a chuckle and a smile.

"Oh, and a Paisley tie, sweet Windsor knot. Real tight. Remember that, Nangi?" Yak asked looking at Nangi who is in a different pose.

"No."

"Yeah, and we both walked him out, and he got into this big old white car with a silver trim. Needed a tune up, the third cylinder wasn't firing. Remember that Nangi?"

"Nope."

"Um, uh, you didn't happen to catch the license plate number… did you?" Velvet asked hopeful.

"Oh, for sure. It was 2-9-T-H-D-0-3." Yak told while Jaune looked amazed by Nangi's flexibility and then to Velvet's notes.

"0-3. Wow, this is a lot of great info, thank you." Velvet told Yak closing her notebook.

"Told you Nangi has a mind like a steel trap." Yak said looking at Nangi in amazement. "I wish I had a memory like an elephant

"You do and you don't realize it." Weiss said shifting in her seat.

"Me too." Sun said. "Would help me remember when tests are and help retain the information."

"It would help you in remembering when our departure time is." Neptune said looking at his friend and referring to the time Sun had to stow away on a cargo boat when he missed the flight to Beacon.

"I said I'm sorry and it won't happen again." Sun said to his friend.

"That's what you said last time and the time before that." Neptune said recalling all the times Sun promised the same thing.

"You two sound like a married couple." Blake said with a teasing smile.

"Like your yaoi books." Sun retorted back also with a teasing smile.

"N-no." Blake stammered while blushing as the image of both Neptune and Sun shirtless flashed in her mind. Their lips close to each other, almost on the verge of kissing, both their hair damp with sweat. "How do you even know about that?"

"We have a friend that is super into yaoi." Neptune said with a shiver. "She has very detailed drawings of us."

"What is yaoi?" Ruby asked Blake making her look at Yang who's eyes flashed red at her.

"Uh-" Blake wasn't sure what to say.

"It is a genre that depicts homosexual relationships between men." Penny answered from her spot. "I can recommend some of my favorite shows and books if you like friend Ruby."

"Uh…" Was Ruby's only response.

Velvet and Jaune leave "The Mystic Spring Oasis".

"Well, I had a ball." Jaune said straitening his tie. "You are welcome for the clue, and seeing as how any moron can run a plate. I will take that pen and bid you adieu." He said holding out his hand.

"The plate. I can't run a plate. Ooh… I'm not in the system yet…" Velvet said with a groan.

"Give me the pen, please…" Jaune said impatient. Velvet turns to Jaune with a sly smile.

"What was it you said? "Any moron can run a plate."" Velvet said putting her arms behind her back. "Gosh, if only there were a moron around who were up to the task." She said waving the pen in front of him.

"Rabbit, I did what you asked!" Jaune said frustrated. "You can't keep me on the hook forever."

"Not forever. Well, I only have 36 hours left to solve this case. So, can you run the plate or not?" Velvet said gently tapping the pen. Jaune glares at her for a moment before grinning slyly.

"Actually, I just remembered, I have a pal at the DMV."

"There's that smile again." Pyrrha noted.

"Last time he took her to a nudist place." Ren said. "Let's hope his friend at the DMV isn't outlandish as that."

"You'll see." Spart told them.

Velvet and Jaune drive to the DMV and park in an empty spot.

"Ren is the fastest guy in there. You need something down, he's on it." Jaune told her as they walked up to the DMV.

"Ren, we get to see you again." Nora said with excitement. "I wonder what animal you are. Something that can move stealthily, I bet."

"We'll see in a moment." Ren said also curious as to what animal he is. He just hoped that it wasn't anything outlandish.

"I wonder what I look like?" Pyrrha asked.

"I hope so. We are really fighting the clock and every minute counts." Velvet said as they enter the building and sees the DMV workers. "Wait, they're all sloths?"

Nora squealed as she saw the many sloths working. "They're beautiful and that means that Renny is also a sloth."

Indeed, all of the DMV workers are sloths moving slowly in every action. A sloth is slowly stamping a paper and moves it to the side to stamp the next sheet really slow.

The next worker is stamping documents together really slowly that the customer is tapping their fingers rapidly against the desk.

In another part of the building a new driver is having their picture taken for their license. The sloth is slowly moving his thumb towards the trigger for the camera. The teen smiles and looks at the sloth while trying to keep their smile up. She turns her head to the sloth and the camera goes off.

"This is a very accurate representation of the DMV." Yang said remembering her time at the DMV to get a license and the hassle it took just to get to the window was a headache.

"Indeed, it can also represent the Vale Council." Ozpin said shaking his head at the thought of those on the Council and their bickering with each other.

"They are adorable." Kali said with a smile at the sloths working.

"You said this was gonna be quick!" Velvet said facing Jaune as they walked to the counter.

"What, are you saying that because he's a sloth he can't be fast?" Jaune asked in mock surprise. "I thought in Zootopia anyone could be anything."

"Ren, Ren, my main man." Jaune said walking up to Ren's spot on the counter. Ren is a sloth with black fur and a single pink strip going down the side of his face. Ren is wearing a green shirt and pink tie. "It's nice to see you."

"Ren you look adorable. Like a plushie." Nora said as she bear hugged her friend. Ren tried not struggle much since he learned ago that struggling against Nora only led to her tightening her hold. Another flash of light and in Nora's lap is a plushie of Ren as a sloth.

"It's so fluffy!" Nora yelled releasing Ren and picking up the plushie of sloth Ren and hugging it. "Look Ren."

"I see, Nora." Ren said after Nora pushed the plushie up to his face. He did see Adrian reaching for the plushie behind Nora. "I think Adrian wants to play with it."

Nora quickly turned around and saw Adrian holding out his arm to the plushie.

"Play." Adrian said.

"You can play with him." Nora said handing the plushie to Adrian who took it with a smile.

Jaune smiled at the scene and could see Nora as an affectionate mother. He blushed as a scene played in his mind of Nora playing with children that have her hair color and his combined.

"Nice to… see you… too." Ren said slowly looking up from his tablet to Jaune who leaned on the desk.

"Hey, Ren, I'd love you to meet my friend." Jaune said pointing to Velvet. "Uh, darling, I've forgotten your name."

"Hmmm." Velvet said giving him a look before introducing herself. "Officer Velvet Scarlatina, ZPD. How are you?"

"I am… doing… just…" Ren spoke to her.

"Fine?"

"… as well… as… I can… be."

"Hmm." Velvet said waiting patiently.

"Hang in there." Jaune told her seeing the frustrated look growing on her face.

"Okay, I can see how that can be annoying." Jaune said moving Adrian to his other knee.

"It's like being in Port's class." Ruby said with a smug grin.

"I can throw in a surprise exam when we get to the new world." Port told the students making them horrified at the notion of a surprise exam. "Just to make sure that my class isn't annoying."

"What… can I… do…"

"Well, I was hoping you could run a plate…" Velvet began but was cut off.

"… for you…" Ren said slowly.

"Well, I was hoping you could…"

"… today?" Ren said finally finished with his sentence. Velvet waited for a moment to see if Ren is indeed finished speaking.

"Well, I was hoping you could run a plate for us." Velvet said. "We are in a really big hurry."

"Shouldn't have said that." Ren said with a wince. "That'll only make things slower."

"Sure, What's the… plate… " Ren asked.

"2-9-T…"

"… number?"

"2-9-T-H-D-0-3." Velvet said placing her hands on the desk.

"2… 9…" Ren said slowly typing the numbers on his tablet.

"T-H-D-0-3." Velvet repeated the remaining numbers.

"… T…"

"H-D-0-3." Velvet said again unaware that Jaune is enjoying her plight.

"… H…"

"D-0-3." Velvet said growing impatient.

"… D…"

"Mm-hmm, 0. 3."

"… 0…"

"3!" Velvet cried desperately.

"I feel bad for her." Yang said wincing when Velvet on screen slumped against the desk.

"That is not something I want to experience." Weiss said glad that she isn't in Velvet's position. Just dealing with that would drive her insane.

"Like hearing Tai's puns." Raven said with a smirk directed at Tai who smirked back.

"Or his dad jokes." Yang added.

"You don't like my jokes?" Tai asked his oldest daughter.

"They're terrible." Yang said.

"Not sure if you noticed, but I love bad puns." Tai said with a straight face. "That's just how eye roll."

Everyone groaned at the joke and Summer slowly shook her head at her husband.

"Hey Ren, wanna hear a joke?" Jaune asked while grinning.

"No!" Velvet yelled looking at Jaune who just smiled.

"Sure." Ren said and Velvet groaned in annoyance.

"Okay, what do you call a three humped camel?" Jaune asked holding up three fingers.

"I hope the joke isn't as bad as your dad's." Jaune said to Ruby.

"Hey." Tai said offended that no one laughed at his joke.

"It was pretty bad, honey." Summer said.

"I don't… know. What do… you call… a…" Ren said looking at Jaune.

"Three humped camel." Velvet said losing her patience and trying to move the joke along.

"… three humped… camel?" Ren asked finishing his sentence.

"Pregnant!" Jaune said laughing and elbows Velvet who has an annoyed look.

Nora burst out laughing at the joke. Some of the students and some of the staff laughed or chuckled at the joke. Even Weiss cracked a smile at the joke even though it wasn't that good.

"That was good." Tai acknowledged.

"Your jokes are funny." Summer said patting Tai's shoulder. "On occasion."

"I got to use that in the future." Sun said wiping away a tear from laughing.

Ren's face slowly changed, his eyes widened and his mouth opened in silent laughter. "Ha… Ha… Heh…"

"Ha ha! Yes, very funny, very funny." Velvet said still annoyed that Jaune delayed her progress. "Can we please just focus on the task?"

Ren turns to his left. "Hey…"

"Wait, wait, wait!" Velvet said waving her hand trying to get Ren's attention.

"… Nora."

Ren's coworker is a female sloth with orange fur and teal eyes, she is wearing a white shirt with a pink sweater. Nora turns to Ren slowly.

"Oh, no!" Velvet cried realizing what is about to happen.

"I look amazing!" Nora shouted with glee upon seeing herself as a sloth. "You see Ren, I'm queen of the sloths." She shouted as she hugged him again. Adrian copied her and tightly hugged the plushies in his arms.

Velvet smiled at the scene of Adrian hugging the plushies. It reminded her of when she was a kid.

"Yes… Ren?" Nora asked.

"What… do…"

"No…!" Velvet cried with panic on her face.

"… you call…"

"A three humped camel? Pregnant!" Velvet yelled over Ren.

"… a three…"

"Okay! Great! We got it! Please just…" Velvet said trying to speed along the joke.

"… humped…"

Velvet growled in frustration and bangs her head against the counter. Jaune just smiles at her.

"I can relate to that." Leon said looking at his wife and earned a playful hit from her.

"I'm not that bad." Emilia said with a playful smirk.

"Jaune is a sneaky one." Sun said slightly impressed at Jaune.

"He's purposely delaying her." Willow said with a shake of her head at Jaune's actions. "She shouldn't have mentioned how long she has to solve the case."

"She was probably excited about having a lead." James said.

"And Jaune is a criminal so you can't expect him to play by the rules." Ilia said getting a refill on her water.

Finally, Ren gets the information and prints it. He slowly takes it out of the printer and slowly hands it to Velvet.

"Here…"

"Yes!" Velvet said eagerly grabbing the sheet of paper from Ren. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, hurry."

"… you…"

"Thank you! 2-9-T-H-D-0-3…" Velvet said reading the information on the paper with haste.

"… go." Ren said finishing his sentence.

"It's registered to… Tundra Limo Service!" Velvet yelled in excitement. "A limo took Otterton! And the limo's in Tundratown!" She shouted running out of the DMV quickly. "It's in Tundratown!"

"Way to hustle, bud. " Jaune told Ren as he followed after Velvet. "I love ya! I owe ya!"

"Hurry!" Velvet said when Jaune caught up with her. "We gotta beat the rush hour and…" She stops mid-sentence when she sees that the parking lot is empty and nighttime. "It's night?!"

"Never trust a criminal." Willow said with a sigh.

"Or crazy bulls that are hung up on their ex." Sienna said referring to Adam to those that know who she is talking about and also to the scene of her death by said person.

"I wonder how long they've been there?" Pyrrha wondered and shifted in her seat.

"Based on how slow sloth Ren was. Probably a while." Nora said leaning back to her seat.

"You think they would've seen everyone leave for the night." Weiss said.

"They were probably focused on Ren to notice." Jaune said before taking a sip of water.

At the Tundratown Limo Service, Velvet and Jaune are outside the dark building in front of a closed gate with a padlock.

"Closed! Great…" Velvet said to herself after tugging on the lock.

"Hm. And I will betcha you don't have a warrant to get in, hmm?" Jaune said walking up behind Velvet. "Darn it. It's a bummer."

"You wasted the day on purpose!" Velvet said turning around to face Jaune.

"Madam, I have a fake badge." Jaune said pointing to the sticker on his shirt. "I would never impede your pretend investigation."

"It's not a 'pretend investigation'." Velvet said now upset and takes out the picture of Emmitt and his family to show Jaune. "Look, see? See him? This otter is missing."

"Well, then they should've gotten a real cop to find him." Jaune said.

"What is your problem?" Velvet asked really upset as she put the picture away. "Does seeing me fail somehow make you feel better about your own sad, miserable life?"

"It does, 100%." Jaune said with a straight face and grinned. "Now, since your sans warrant, I guess we're… done?"

"At least he's honest." Glynda said setting her tea cup down. "An honest criminal."

"A rare thing." Ozpin said with a hidden smile. "Like finding a good cup of coffee."

"Or finding completed paperwork." Glynda said with a pointed look at Ozpin who suddenly found something interested in his coffee.

"Or good restaurant pancakes." Nora added.

"Fine. We are done." Velvet said after a sigh and took out her pen and holds it out. "Here's your pen." Jaune grins as he reaches for the pen only to have Velvet throw it over the fence and onto the other side.

"Hey!" Jaune cried seeing the pen land in the snow on the other side of the fence. "First off, you throw like a bunny. Second, you're a very sore loser." He told her before he starts climbing the fence. "See you later, Officer Fluff! So sad this is over. I wish I could've helped more!" He yelled as he reached the top and hoped down.

Instead of finding the pen on the ground. Jaune sees Velvet standing in front of him holding the pen and having a smug look on her face.

"The thing is, you don't need a warrant if you have probable cause, and I'm pretty sure I saw a shifty lowlife climbing the fence." Velvet told and Jaune saw a hole running underneath the fence, meaning that Velvet dug her way through. Jaune shook of his surprise and glared at Vevlet as she waved the pen in front of him.

"So, you're helping plenty! Come on!" Velvet said walking towards the parked limos.

"Man, she may look prim and proper but she's got a dark side." Sun said with a chuckle.

"I get the feeling she's enjoying herself." Blake said with a small smile at the scene.

"Oh, she probably is." Yang said knowing that feeling of getting one over on someone.

"Don't worry, you'll get there." Coco told Velvet when she saw her looking glum at how much more confident her on screen counterpart it.

"Thanks." Velvet responded with a smile. She is already feely a little more confident since she told Jaune her feelings. And the kiss they shared helped to boost her confidence..

"2-9-T-H-D-0-3… This is it!" Velvet said after wiping the snow covering the license plate. She is using her phone light to light her way as she runs to the driver side as Jaune opens the passenger side door. Cold mist comes out from the car. Velvet looks around the pedals and sees a strand of white fair. She picks it up with a pair of tweezers.

"Polar bear fur." She said after examining it and showing it to Jaune who nods and rolls his eyes. Jaune opens the glove compartment and suddenly jumps back in alarm.

"Oh my god!"

"What? What!" Velvet asked shining the light in his direction. Jaune takes out a bunch of CDs and shows them to her.

"The velvety pipes of Jerry Vole!" Jaune says grinning and Velvet looks at him annoyed. She puts the polar bear fur in an evidence bag and continues searching. "But on CD. Who still uses CDs?" He asked tossing the CDs back into the glove compartment.

Jaune looks up and sees the window slide that separates the driver from the rear of the limo. He climbs on the seat and opens it.

"Carrots? If your otter was here, he had a very bad day." Jaune said spooked by what he's seeing. Velvet goes to him and looks through the window slide to see that the back is ripped and claw marks could be seen.

"Those are… claw marks." Velvet said shining her light into the back of the limo. "You ever seen anything like this?"

"No."

"This reminds me of the alien universe." Ruby said with a shiver. The claw scratches and the lighting didn't help.

"I wonder what happened?" Jaune asked looking at the scene.

"Looks like a fight happened." Velvet said as she got a refill on her carrot juice.

"Oh, wait. Look!" Velvet said shining the light on a wallet on the carpet. Velvet and Jaune climb through the small window and Velvet grabs the wallet. She opens it and sees Emmitt's picture. "This is him. Emmitt Otterton. He was definitely here. What do you think happened?" She asked while looking around trying to spot any more clues.

Jaune looks around and sees a knocked over glass cup. He reaches for it and picks it up, turning it around he sees a stylized B imprinted on it.

"Well, now, wait a minute. Polar bear fur, rat-pack music, fancy cup?" Jaune said listing off everything they found. He shows signs of fear and starts to organize the cups frantically. "I know whose car this is, we gotta go."

"Why? Whose car is it?' Velvet asked curious to know why Jaune's acting like this.

"The most feared crime boss in Tundratown. They call him Mr. Big, and he does not like me. We gotta go!" Jaune told her after he finished organizing the cups.

"I'm not leaving. This is a crime scene." Velvet said.

"Well, it's gonna be an even bigger crime scene if Mr. Big finds me here, so we're leaving, right now!" Jaune told her and grabbing her arm. He opens the car door and sees two polar bears wearing jogging suits waiting for them.

"Oh, gah! Raymond!" Jaune said surprised and tried to be casual. "And is that Kevin! Long time no see!" He said as the polar bears growl when they see him. Velvet is looking at the two and chooses not to speak.

"And speaking of 'no see', how about you forget you saw me. Huh? For old time's sake?" Jaune asked the two and they responded by grabbing Jaune and Velvet by their necks. "That's a no."

"I wonder what Jaune did to incur the wrath of Mr. Big?" Ruby wondered.

"Something pretty bad to make him scared." Yang said before taking a sip of her soda.

"Also, what kind of name is Mr. Big?" Nora asked with a tilt of her head

"Crime bosses and their nicknames." Sienna said with a sigh and a shake of her head. She never understood their names.

"Could be he's compensating for something." Nora said now holding a bag of chips.

Jaune and Velvet are between the two polar bears as they drove in a limo. Both are stunned and wide eyed as they sit in silence. Velvet looked to her left and one of the polar bears is scrolling through the pictures on his phone. He stops on a photo which is a selfie of him and another polar bear smiling as they hold a wolf in a headlock. Velvet winces when she saw the photo.

"What did you do that made Mr. Big so mad at you?" Velvet whispered to Jaune who didn't move.

"I, um… I may have sold him a very expensive wool rug that was made from the fur of a skunk'sss…. Butt." Jaune whispered back and Velvet looked at him with a shocked look on her face.

"That'll piss anyone off." Ren choked out after nearly choking on his tea.

"No wonder Mr. Big is mad at Jaune." Coco said with a smile. "Gotta give him props for doing that to a crime boss and living."

"Maybe I should do the same to Adam." Blake whispered to herself.

"Now I can't help but wonder how that conversation went." Sun said with a smile as his respect for on screen Jaune rise for his stunt.

"Or how it ended." Neptune said.

"Oh, sweet cheese and crackers." Velvet said worried about what's going to happen next.

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The limo drives up to a large house and a polar bear closes the gate after the limo passes through the gate. The polar bears escort Jaune and Velvet out of the limo and to room with a single desk and no one is in the room. The polar bears shove Jaune and Velvet into the room, as they do another polar bear enters wearing a black suit.

"Is that Mr. Big?" Velvet whispered eyeing the large polar bear.

"No." Jaune whispered back.

Another large polar bear enters.

"What about him? Is that him?"

"No!" Jaune whispered back as a third much larger polar entered. This polar was different from the others, he wore a black suit with a black turtleneck and gold necklace.

"That's gotta be him." Velvet said gasping at the sight of the large polar bear.

"Stop talking, stop talking, stop talking!" Jaune warned her when he saw the large polar bear.

The large polar bear sits down at the desk with his hands on the desk and pushes his hands forward. He then removes his hand to reveal a small chair which he turns around to reveal Mr. Big.

"Huh." Velvet said tilting her head slightly.

"Not what I was expecting." Yang said surprised that Mr. Big isn't big at all.

"His personality must make up for his size." Ghira said before taking a sip of tea.

"Never underestimate anyone based on size." Glynda said.

"It's true look at Ruby and Weiss." Yang said with a grin.

"Small but deadly." Ruby said with pride and Weiss agreed with a nod.

"Mr. Big, sir, this is a simple misunder-" Jaune began but stopped when Mr. Big grunted and holds out his hand, showing a ring on his finger. "Oh, here!" Jaune said before leaning in to kiss the ring.

"Ahh. This is a simple misunderstanding."

"You come here unannounced on the day my daughter is to be married." Mr. Big says in a low voice.

"Well, actually, we were brought here against our will, so…" Jaune said laughing nervously while Mr. Big raises an eyebrow slightly at him. "The point is, I-I did not know that it was your car, and I certainly did not know about your daughter's wedding!"

Velvet is watching the interaction with a raised brow.

"I trusted you, Jauney. I welcomed you into my home." Mr. Big said and Jaune hangs his head in shame and guilt as he recalled the generosity that was showed to him by Mr. Big. "We broke bread together, Grandmama made you a cannoli." He said pointing to a painting of an older mammal with grey hair and wrinkles. Red candles are on either side of the painting.

"And how did you repay my generosity?" Mr. Big asked pointing a finger at Jaune. "With a rug. Made from the butt of a skunk. A skunk butt rug. You disrespected me. You disrespected my grandmamma, who I buried in that skunk butt rug." He said pointing to the portrait as the polar bear that brought him in crosses his chest in prayer.

"That will definitely anger anyone, including a crime boss." James said wondering how on screen Jaune is still alive after pulling that stunt.

"Although I do wonder how they found out." Willow asked.

"They probably did research into the rug and found the truth." Bart said having researched such things when he was attending Beacon as a part timer for money.

"I told you never to show your face here again, but here you are." Mr. Big said wagging his finger at him. "Snooping around with this… What are you, a performer? What's with the costume?" He said pointing to Velvet.

"Sir, I am a co-" Velvet said before Jaune cut her off.

"Mime!" Jaune yelled. "She is a mime!" He said with a raised voice pushing Velvet's shoulder roughly and glaring at her. "This mime cannot speak! You can't speak if you're a mime!"

"No, I am a cop." Velvet said giving Jaune an annoyed look and Jaune facepalms. "And I'm on the Emmitt Otterton case, and my evidence puts him in your car!" She said approaching the desk and pointing a finger at Mr. Big accusingly. "So, intimidate me all you want, I'm gonna find out what you did to that otter if it's the last thing I do."

Jaune is shocked at Velvet's declaration and facepalms again.

"Then I have only one request: say hello to grandmamma. Ice 'em!" Mr. Big orders his men.

Velvet backs away from the desk in fear and confusion.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jaune yelled approaching the desk as one of the polar guards pick her up by the back of her shirt. "I-I-I-I-I-I didn't see nothing! I'm not saying nothing!" He said pleading for his life while the other guard grabs Jaune's shirt and pulls him away. Jaune tries to hold onto the desk by digging his claws in but ends up leaving claw marks behind.

"And you never will." Mr. Big told him.

"Please!" Jaune cried struggling to get free.

"Put me down!" Velvet said as one of the polar bears move a carpet and opens a trap door, revealing an icy pit.

"No, no, no, no, no! if you're mad at me about the rug, I've got more rugs!" Jaune yelled as he and Velvet were brought above the ice pit.

"I don't think that's going to work." Sienna said with a slight shake of her head.

"I wonder how they are going to get out of this." Neptune said out loud. "Jaune can't hustle his way out and Velvet probably isn't well liked. Since she's a cop."

"We'll be surprised, I'm sure." Pyrrha said.

"Are you ok?" Leon asked his wife when she tightened her grip on his arm.

"It's just hard seeing Jaune in danger." Emilia said and Leon knew the feeling. "But we need to accept that Jaune is no longer our little boy."

"He's still is." Leon said knowing that Emilia is protective of their children. "You're right, though. He chose his path and we need to respect that."

"Oh, Daddy! It's time for our dance!" Mr. Big's daughter walks in wearing a wedding dress. She sees Velvet and Jaune above the ice pit and gets upset.

"Ugh! What did we say? No icing anyone at my wedding!" She said upset at her father.

"I have to, baby, daddy has to." Mr. Big told his daughter before facing his guards. "Ice 'em!"

"No, no, no!" Jaune yelled as they were lowered into the ice pit.

"Wait. Wait!" Mr. Big's daughter said and the guards stop. "She's the bunny that saved my life yesterday! From that giant donut." She told her father.

"I thought she looked familiar." Coco said. "I love her dress." She said with admiration.

"It does look good." Velvet agreed.

"Maybe a similar design for your wedding?" Coco asked with a sly grin and Velvet blushed as the scene materialized in her imagination. "Promise you'll let me design it."

"Su-sure." Velvet stuttered as she imagined the scene play out and their wedding night.

"This bunny?" Mr. Big asked pointing to Velvet.

"Yeah! Hi!" She said waving to Velvet who waved back.

"Hi. I love your dress!" Velvet said.

"Aw… Thank you!" Mr. Big's daughter said smiling and looking at her dress.

"Hm. Put 'em down." Mr. Big told his men and they closed the ice pit and set Jaune and Velvet down. "You have done me a great service. I will help you find the otter. I will take your kindness and pay it forward." Mr. Big held out his arms and Velvet leans forward and Mr. Big kisses her on both cheeks.

Jaune looks at them dumbfounded and his jaw drops a little.

"Does this mean she's part of his crime family?" Jaune asked while bouncing Adrian on his leg making him laugh.

"I think so." Sun said also unsure.

"She did save his daughter, so… yeah?" Yang said with a shrug.

"As long it gets them out of being iced." Ren said.

"No ice puns?" Ruby asked her sister.

"Nah, too easy." Yang replied.

At the wedding, the bride and husband stand together with their family pose for the photographer who takes their photo. The rest of the wedding party dance as music plays in the background and the polar bears stand guard watching them in circle.

Jaune and Velvet sit at Mr. Big's table. A waiter comes by with a plate of sliced wedding cake, he offers a plate to Jaune who takes it and looks at it. Jaune scoffs at the small size and picks up a tiny fork to cut part of the cake the size of a crumb and eats it.

"Hmm…" Jaune said impressed and nodes his head slightly.

"You could eat that in one bite." Ruby said seeing the small cake and plate. "You got to be careful to not break the plate or fork."

"The small plate looks adorable." Penny said with a smile. "I wonder how the cake tastes?" Another flash of light and everyone except for Adrian now had a piece of the wedding cake, regular size.

Everyone took a bite from the cake and some moaned in delight as the taste flooded their mouths. Jaune took a small piece and handed it to Adrian who ate it.

"Otterton is my florist. He's like a part of the family." Mr. Big told Velvet who sat to his left. "He had something important he wanted to discuss. That's why I sent that car to pick him up. But he never arrived."

"Because he was attacked." Velvet said listening.

"No. He attacked." Mr. Big said surprising Velvet said.

"Otterton?" Velvet asked confused.

"Otterton. He went crazy – ripped up the car, scared my driver half to death, and disappeared into the night."

"But he's a sweet little otter." Velvet said and Jaune listened interested.

"Hmm. My child, we may be evolved, but deep down, we are still animals." Mr. Big said and Velvet and Jaune have looks of concern on their face.

"You wanna find Otterton, talk to the driver of the car." Mr. Big told them. "His name is Manchas. Lives in the Rainforest District. Only he can tell you more."

"This is getting interesting." Nora said in a deep voice. "What started off as a simple missing mammal has now grown into something more."

"Something that could very well shake the foundations of Zootopia." Jaune added with his own deep voice, doing his best to sound like the announcer on some movie trailers.

"A truth that if revealed could undo the system." Nora said with a smile before laughing and Jaune joined her.

Jaune and Velvet are now in the Rainforest District and walking across a bridge to a moss-covered house. When the approach the house Velvet moves some vines out of the way and rings the doorbell.

"Mr. Manchas? Velvet Scarlatina, ZPD. We just wanna know what happened to Emmitt Otterton." Velvet said looking at door. The door opened slowly revealing Manchas who is a large black jaguar.

"You should be asking what happened to me!" Manchas said showing his face, his right eye is badly starched and bruised. Jaune and Velvet gasp at the sight.

"Whoa. A teensy otter did that?" Jaune asked surprised that a small otter could do that much damage.

"What happened?" Velvet asked.

"He was an animal." Manchas said.

---

Manchas is driving the limo. Strange sounds can be heard in the back and Manchas adjusts the rear-view mirror.

"Down on all fours."

Manchas sees Otterton on all fours tearing the seats apart in the mirror. He looks over his shoulder and sees nothing.

"He was a savage."

Manchas has look of fear on his face since he can't find Otterton. Otterton jumps up, he looks feral as he attacks Manchas, making the limo spin out of control and almost hit a passing car. The limo swerves and stops on the side of the road. Manchas screams in pain and jumps out of the limo, clutching his eye and watches as Otterton climbs out of the car and snarls before running off.

"Never knew an otter could be scary." Pyrrha said with a shiver at the flashback. Now it reminded her of the alien universe.

Adrian hugged his plushies tighter when he saw the flashback.

"It's ok." Jaune told Adrian and bounced him on his knee bringing a smile back to him. The girls couldn't help but smile at the scene and could see Jaune as a loving father.

"I wonder what made him go feral?" Li said since people generally don't just go from fine to attacking others in a matter of seconds.

"Keep watching and we'll find out." An told her husband.

"There was no warning. He just kept yelling about the Night howlers." Mancchas said. Jaune looks at Velvet and she shrugs. "Over and over, the Night howlers!"

"Oh, so, you know about the Night howlers, too." Jaune said putting his hands in his pockets. "Good, good, good. Because the Night howlers are exactly what we are here to talk about, right?" He looks at Velvet.

"Yup. So, uh, you just open the door and tell us what you know, and we will tell you what we know. Okay?" Velvet said going along with Jaune.

"Okay." Manchas said before closing the door and unlocking it.

"Clever fox." Velvet tells Jaune who smirks at her when the sounds of crashing is heard inside the house and Manchas screams.

"Oh no." Velvet said worried about Manchas.

"Mr. Manchas?" Velvet said opening the door slowly and sees Manchas is hunched over on the floor, twitching and convulsing.

"Buddy?" Jaune asked.

"Are you... okay?" Velvet asks and Manchas stops convulsing and turns to face the two. Manchas is now on all fours and his pupils have turned into slits, he growls at the two baring his teeth at them. "Run. Run!"

Jaune and Velvet run away from the house as rain starts to fall with Manchas chasing them.

"What is wrong with him?" Jaune asks he runs ahead of Vevlet across the bridge.

"I don't know!" Velvet shouted as Manchas jumps on to the bridge, flinging Jaune and Velvet into the air. They land back on the bridge and continue running until they reach the end of the bridge. "Jump!"

Jaune and Velvet jump off the side of the bridge just as Manchas leaps towards them. Jaune and Velvet land on a branch and quickly recover.

"Come on!" Velvet shouts grabbing Jaune' hand as they continue running. Manchas jumps onto the same branch and continues pursuing them. They run into a log and crawl through as Manchas tries to get them. "Head down!" Velvet said as Manchas jumps onto the log and claws at them through an opening.

"Officer Scarlatina to Dispatch!"

---

"Are you familiar with Gazelle, greatest singer of our lifetime, angel with horns?" Clawhauser asked a prisoner showing him his phone. He doesn't see the blinking red light on his microphone.

"Pay attention to your job!" Weiss screamed at the screen throwing her arms up.

"They need reprimand him." James said shaking his head at the sight of officer neglecting his duties. Winter also agreed having dealt with soldiers like Clawhauser before.

"Okay, hold on. Keep watching. Who's that beside her? Who is it?" Clawhauser said excited. On the phone is a video of Gazelle dancing next to her backup dancer, the face of the dancer is a photo of Clawhauser. It's very obvious that the video is fake.

"Wow, you are one hot dancer, Benjamin Clawhauser." The fake Gazelle says and Clawhauser laughs.

"It's me!" He said pointing to the screen and the prisoner shoots a quick glance at the officer escorting him. "Did you think it was real? It looks so real!" He said looking at his phone screen before getting disappointed.

"It's not, it's just a new app." Clawhauser said and sees the flashing red light. "Hold on a second."

"Clawhauser!" Velvet shout startles Clawhauser as he drops his phone.

"He must really be a fan." Jaune said after seeing the edited video on the app.

"She does have a great voice." Weiss acknowledged after hearing her song in the beginning.

"I would need to hear more of her music to judge." Coco said since she bought albums before based on a single song and the rest of the album was meh. Since then she searched for more of their songs to judge for herself before buying an album.

"I like how the prisoner looked at the cop escorting him. When Clawhauser showed him the video." Neptune said with a slight chuckle.

"I think all the cops in the precinct know about his fanboys status." Sun said.

"Like Glynda with Vale in Dust." Emilia said looking at Glynda. "I still remember how you fangirled when we got to meet the band backstage."

"I was younger back then." Glynda said defending actions when she was younger. "Like you were any different when we went to see Specter."

"Yeah, I can't wait for their new album." Emilia said while thinking of the last time she went a concert. The last one was just before Jaune was born, her old unit bought her tickets to see Specter before they decided to take a break. She decided to take Glynda along since she clearly needed a break from being a huntress.

"Clawhauser, listen to me, we have a 10-91!" Velvet reported as she and Jaune crawled the log while dodging the swipes from Manchas. "Jaguar gone savage! Vine and Tudjunja!"

"It's Tujunga!" Jaune shouts as they leave the log and continue running. He sees Manchas coming and grabs Velvet, pulling her out of way. She drops the radio.

"Okay, we're sending backup. Scarlatina! Scarlatina!"

Jaune and Velvet continue running through the leaves and come upon a sky tram station.

"There! Head to the sky trams!" Velvet pointed to the sky trams. Jaune runs ahead leaving Velvet behind, she looks over her shoulder and sees Manchas getting closer and ready to leap at her. She jumps to a lamp post and spins on it to escape, she lands and slips on the floor and over the edge. She quickly grabs the edge, hanging on.

Jaune makes it to the station and opens a gondola lift door.

"Get in!" Jaune yells and turns around to see Velvet missing. "Carrots? Carrots!" He then saw her starting to climb back up, Manchas is slowly approaching him.

"Go!" Velvet yelled.

"No, no, no, no!" Jaune panicked as the gondola started moving, leaving the two behind. He turns to face Manchas. "Buddy, one predator to another…" Manchas leaps at Jaune who shields himself with his arms.

Manchas is stopped a few feet from Jaune. Turns out Velvet handcuffed one of Manchas feet to the lamp post.

"Now I can tell you're a little tense." Jaune said as he shuffled around Manchas. "So, I'm just gonna give you a little personal space!" He yelled as Manchas snarls and lunges at him, knocking him backward into Velvet. The duo falls off the edge, Velvet quickly grabs a vine and grabs Jaune. They swing back and forth under the bridge.

"Rabbit, whatever you do, do not let go!" Jaune yelled at Velvet as he held her hand tightly. Velvet sees a vine cluster in front of them.

"I'm gonna let go!" Velvet told him.

"You gotta time that right." Ilia said. "No room for error."

"And you gotta hope the vines support your weight from the impact." Ghira said looking at the screen. "It's a risky move."

"It's either that or take their chances with Manchas." Kali said looking at her husband. "I would take my chances with the vines."

"Same." Jaune said seeing how wild Manchas appeared.

"No! You what?!" Jaune asked looking at Velvet.

"One… Two…"

"I said do not… Rabbit!" Jaune yelled as Velvet let's go of the vine and they're sent flying off and they land in the vines. They look up and see Manchas snarling and growling over the edge of the tram entrance. Jaune looks at the vines around him. "Carrots, you saved my life!"

"Well, that's what we do here at the ZPD-" Velvet said before the vines broke and the two fell once again. Thankfully they fell on leaves that slowed their descent and they landed into more vines. Which resulted in them getting tangled up a few feet off the ground.

Police sirens can be heard approaching and soon the cars arrive and drive up to them. Chief Ironwood steps out and approaches them. Velvet smiles at ironwood.

"Well this should be good." Ironwood said crossing his arms.

"Hopefully she'll convince them." Neptune said stretching his arms.

"Maybe then she'll get some help from them." Sun added.

"I thought this was just a missing mammal case, but it's way bigger." Velvet told the Chief as she led the officers up the path to the sky tram where they left Manchas. "Mr. Otterton did not just disappear. I believe he, and this jaguar, they… they went savage, sir." She told Ironwood.

"Savage? This isn't the stone age, Scarlatina. Animals don't 'go savage'." Ironwood told her clearly not believing her.

"I thought so too…" Velvet said placing a hand on the leaves in front of her. "Till I saw this." She said moving the leaves out of the way. Manchas is no longer handcuffed to the lamp and gone. "What? He was right here!"

"The savage jaguar?" Ironwood asked sounding bored. Velvet ran to the spot Manchas was.

"Sir, I know what I saw." She said looking for any clues in the area. "He almost killed us!"

"Or maybe any aggressive predator looks savage to you rabbits." Ironwood told with his arms behind his back before turning to the other officers. "Let's go!"

"No. wait! Sir, I'm not the only one who saw him." Vevlet said before looking at Jaune for help. "Jaune!"

"You think I'm gonna believe a fox?" Ironwood asked with a scoff pointing to Jaune.

"Wow…" Blake said amazed at Ironwood.

"Jeez, predators are not well liked." Kali said also shocked at Ironwood. "Even though he's a witness, he just dismisses him because he's a fox."

"Foxes must be seen as shifty and untrustworthy." Bart said slowly shaking his head at the scene. It reminded him of the relations between the faunus and the humans.

"That's just messed up." Ruby said with a heavy sigh.

"Well, he was a key witness, and I –" Velvet said explaining why Jaune was important to the case.

"Two days to find the otter, or you quit. That was the deal." Ironwood said cutting off Velvet and holding out his hand. "Badge." Jaune watches shocked at the scene.

"But sir, we had…"

"Badge!" Ironwood yelled and Velvet reluctantly started to remove her badge.

"Uh, no." Jaune said stopping her and Chief Ironwood looks at him.

"What did you say, fox?"

"Sorry, what I said was, 'No!' she will not be giving you that badge." Jaune said and Ironwood grunts irritably. "Look, you gave her a… a clown vest, a three wheeled joke mobile, and two days to solve a case you guys haven't cracked in two weeks." He said standing next to Velvet and Chief Ironwood looks ashamed at what Jaune said briefly.

"Yeah, it's no wonder she needed to get help from a fox. None of you guys were gonna help her, were you?" Jaune asked and Ironwood tried to speak but Jaune cut him off. "Here's the thing, Chief. You gave her 48 hours, so technically we still have…" Jaune counted in his head and whispered the numbers. "Ten left to find our Mr. Otterton, and that is exactly what we're gonna do.

"So, if you'll excuse us, we have a very big lead to follow, and a case to crack. Good day." Jaune said as he heard of a gondola coming and walked to the boarding zone.

Velvet tries to find something to say to Ironwood, but stops herself and points in the direction of Jaune and walks after him. Ironwood doesn't say a word as he watches Velvet walk away.

"Damn, that was fun to watch." Sun with a big smile.

"He does bring up good points." Blake said also smiling at how Ironwood got talked to. "Chances are they wouldn't have helped her."

"Just because she's a bunny." Sienna said while scoffing at the actions of the so called police force.

"Officer Scarlatina." Jaune said holding the gondola door open for her and Velvet enters the gondola. Together Jaune and Velvet ride the gondola leaving behind Ironwood and the other officer behind. Velvet looks at the passing scenery before looking at Jaune amazed that he stood up for her instead of just leaving. She leans on the railings and watches the scenery in silence.

"Thank you." Velvet said after a moment of riding in silence.

"Never let 'em see that they get to you." Jaune told her.

"So… things do get to you?" Velvet asked looking at Jaune.

"Oh, I mean, not anymore, but I was small and emotionally unbalanced like you once." Jaune said glancing her briefly.

"Har-har." Velvet said sarcastically and rolled her eyes.

"No, it's true. I think I was eight or maybe nine, and all I wanted to do was join the Junior Ranger Scouts."

---

A young Jaune is in front of a mirror with a smile and wearing a scout's uniform. His mother is helping him in adjusting the uniform. He looks at himself in the mirror and stands straighter and has a look of determination on his young face. His mother tickles him from behind making him laugh

"So, my mom scraped together enough money to buy me a brand-new uniform, because by god I was gonna fit in, even if I was the only predator in the troop, the only fox."

Young Jaune enters the Junior Scouts building where he is greeted by the rest of the scouts who wait for him.

"Okay Jaune." The young scout leader said upon seeing Jaune enter the room.

"I was gonna be part of a pack."

"Why do I get the feeling that something bad is about to happen." Emilia said worried for her on screen son.

"Probably because something is about to happen." Leon said also having a bad feeling.

"Ready for initation?" The scout leader asked as Jaune descended the stairs.

"Yeah, pretty much born ready." Young Jaune said confidently and with a smile.

"I was so proud."

Young Jaune slaps a high five from one of the scouts and stands in front of the leader as the other scouts form a circle around him. The lead scouts snap his fingers and the lights go out, Jaune winces when a flashlight clicks on and is shined in his face by the scout leader.

"Okay. Now raise your right paw and deliver the oath."

Young Jaune raises his paw. "I, Jaune Arc, promise to be brave, loyal, helpful, and trustworthy!"

The scout leader briefly looks at his friends. "Even though you're a fox?" He asked and young Jaune's confident smile drops before the light is clocked off and he is roughly shoved to the floor.

"What?" Young Jaune asked confused as the other scouts hold him down and panicked. "No, no! What did I do wrong, you guys?! No, please! Tell me! What did I do wrong?!" Young Jaune asked while he struggled to get free. The lead scout chuckled as he produced something from behind his back.

"What did I do?!" Young Jaune asked once again in fear as he sees that the lead scout is holding a muzzle that he puts on young Jaune. "No!"

"If you thought we would ever trust a fox without a muzzle, you're even dumber than you look." The scout leader said with a dark chuckle as the rest of the scouts let go of young Jaune.

Young Jaune takes the opportunity and runs out of the building still wearing the muzzle while the scouts laugh at him. He runs to the side of the building and stops to catch his breath.

"Crybaby!'

"Aw, is he gonna cry!"

Young Jaune struggles to remove the muzzle and finally gets it off and throws it away. He breaks down in tears and begins to sob quietly as he slides down the wall.

"Kids can be so cruel." Saphron said in a low voice.

"Jerks." Ruby said with narrow eyes at the kids who tormented young Jaune. She hated bullies ever since she was young.

Nora was reminded of her youth when the kids of Kuroyuri would point and laugh at her for being homeless and not having parents.

"Are you okay?" Jaune asked and Nora looked at unaware that a few tears escaped. When she didn't answer and shook her head, Jaune put his arm around her and pulled her into a one arm hug. Nora embraced the hug and cried into his shoulder, Jaune didn't say anything as he continued to hold her.

Everyone watched the sight unsure what to say and chose to stay silent.

Ren smiled at the sight having experienced the same thing. There were times when Nora would let her happiness down and she would just sit still and cry. Ren was there to comfort her as best he could and at times used his semblance to calm her. He could see that Jaune is helping her just by holding her and allowing her to cry. He knew that she is thinking about her past, even though he told her multiple times over the years that the past is the past. She's still haunted by what she went through when she was kid.

"It's okay." Jaune whispered to Nora. "I'm here for you."

"Really?" Nora asked looking up at him. Her eyes are red from crying.

"Yeah." Jaune replied looking in Nora's eyes, the way the light hit her eyes illuminated them making them almost glow in the low light. He found the sight beautiful and didn't see her smiling and leaned in to kiss him on the cheek making him blush.

"Thank you." Nora said with a warm smile and a blush of her own. Adrian held out the sloth Ren plushie to her and she smiled widely. "Thank you." She said taking the plushie and booped him on the nose making him laugh.

"I learned two things that day. One: I was never gonna let anyone see that they got to me." Jaune said lost in his thoughts.

"And two?" Velvet asked.

"If the world's only gonna see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, there's no point in trying to be anything else."

"Jaune…" Velvet said placing a hand on his arm. "You are so much more than that." Jaune looks at her and pulls away. Jaune inhales and decides to change the subject.

"Boy, look at that traffic down there. How about we go up to Chuck in traffic control." Jaune said seeing the early morning traffic in the streets down below. He put a paw against his ear to mimic a reporter. "Chuck, how're things looking on the jam cams?"

"Jaune, I'm glad you told me." Velvet said looking at Jaune, unaware that an idea just popped into his head.

"The jam cams…" He said with realization.

"Seriously, it's okay –"

"No, no, no, shh! There are traffic cameras everywhere, all over the canopy!" He said pointing to a camera hidden in a fake palm tree. "Whatever happened to the jaguar…"

"The traffic cams would have caught it!" Velvet said with realization and excited as her ears perked up.

"Bingo!" Jaune said with a smile.

"Oh-ho, pretty sneaky, slick!" Velvet said and lightly punching Jaune in his arm.

"Yes, however, if you didn't have access to the system before, I doubt Chief Iron-Butt is gonna let you into it now." Jaune said leaning on the rail.

"Ha! I'm gonna use that in the future." Qrow said laughing as he tuned to look at James. "Iron-butt. With how much prosthetics you have. I wouldn't be surprised if you do have a metal ass."

Winter was about to reprimand Qrow again but refrained when she saw James shake his head subtly in her direction. James is used to Qrow's attitude towards him, he's just thankful that he doesn't have to deal with it every day.

Ozpin hid his smile behind his coffee cup at the nickname. Even Glynda wasn't immune as she hid a smile behind her hand.

No… But I have a friend at City Hall who might!" Velvet said with a smile.

---

At City Hall, Mayor Lionheart is walking to his office while Goodwitch is following him carrying a large stack of folders.

"Uh, sir, if we could just review these very important… Sir!" Goodwitch said almost tripping and dropping the folders. She almost stepped on a mouse that was passing by. "Oh, I'm sorry, sir!" She told the mouse who gave her a look.

"Okay! I heard you, Goodwitch, just take care of it!" Lionheart yelled turning around and slamming another folder on top of the pile. "Please. And clear my afternoon, I'm going out."

"Typical day for me." Glynda said slouching in her seat slightly.

"I wouldn't go that far." Ozpin said looking at Glynda. "You're a valuable member of my teaching staff."

"And you're the Deputy Headmistress of Beacon." Emilia said trying to cheer her friend up.

"At times I am. But other times I'm a glorified secretary." Glynda said glumly.

"Certainly got the look down." Leon whispered and hissed in pain when emilia elbowed him in the ribs.

"What was that?" Emilia asked innocently.

"Nothing." Leon said wincing from the lingering pain in his ribs.

Goodwitch noticed a paper slip out of one of the many folders and quickly grabbed it. "Oh, no, but sir, you do have a meeting with Herds and Grazing, sir, if I can just…" She said following Lionheart and was unprepared for Lionheart closing the doors to his office. Goodwitch crashed into the doors and spilled everything on the floor.

"Oh, mutton chops." She said to herself and started to gather the folder and their contents off the floor. She doesn't see Velvet and Jaune approaching until Velvet picks up a folder and gets her attention.

"Assistant Mayor Goodwitch, we need your help." Velvet told her.

Inside of Goodwitch's office which is a repurposed janitor's closet with a sign tapped on the door that says it's the office of the Assistant Mayor. Velvet and Jaune stood next to Goodwitch as she sat at her desk which is next to the boiler.

"We just need to get into the traffic cam database." Velvet said watching as Goodwitch typed away on her computer. Jaune looked at her fluffy hair/wool. He touched it and smiled widely before feeling it.

"So fluffy." He whispered happily while Velvet looked horrified at what he's doing.

"Hey!" Velvet whispered.

"Sheep never let me get this close." Jaune told her continuing to feel the wool.

"You can't just touch a sheep's wool!"

"It's like cotton candy."

"Stop it!" Velvet said swatting his hand and accidently moved the wool and tried to adjust it.

"He's not wrong. Sheep's wool is soft." Sun said remembering the feeling from his childhood in Vacuo. Plenty of farmers and sheepherders in the city and in the outskirts and they would hire when they needed help. Sun had worked part time as a sheepherder in his youth.

"That's almost like touching Yang's hair. A big nope." Ruby said recalling the first time someone touched Yang's hair without permission. It would be the start of their father being called to the office on account of Yang or Ruby.

"At least my office is better than hers." Glynda said feeling better. "They really couldn't find an empty office for her to use?"

"Could be they just didn't have the room." Port said also glad that his office isn't in the janitors room.

"Or they just chose the first door they saw." Bart said.

"Where to?" Goodwitch asked and Velvet quickly composed herself.

"Uh, Rainforest District. Vine and Tujunga." Velvet said and Goodwitch went back to typing. Velvet glared at Jaune for his little stunt and he responded with a grin.

"There! Traffic cams for the whole city." Goodwitch said pointing at the screen with pride. "Well, this is so exciting, actually. I mean, you know, I never get to do anything this important."

"But you're the assistant mayor of Zootopia." Velvet said seeing her downtrodden expression.

"Oh, I'm more of a glorified secretary." Goodwitch said while her ears briefly droop. "I think Mayor Lionheart just wanted the sheep vote. But he did give me that nice mug!" She said pointing to a mug on her desk that read "Worlds Greatest Dad". The dad is crossed out and over it is "Assistant Mayor".

"Wow…" Bart and Port said at the same time.

Glynda's eye twitched at the cup. How she continued to work for Lionheart who clearly has no respect for her is something she can't understand.

"It's better than a t-shirt." Qrow said trying to lighten the mood and instantly felt eyes digging into the back of his skull. He didn't have to guess who it was.

"If you ever give me such a gift…" Glynda didn't need to finish since Ozpin quickly nodded in understanding. Sometimes Glynda reminded him of his wife before she tried to kill him and all of Remnant.

"That reminds me, what happened to my mug?" Ghira asked since he had such a mug from Blake when she was younger.

"I accidentally broke it and threw it out." Kali told her husband with a straight face.

"When?"

"Four years ago." Kali said looking at him.

"You couldn't tell me in the four years since then?" Ghira asked his wife. It was his favorite mug, mainly because it was a gift from Blake on his birthday.

"It slipped my mind. We can get you another one." Kali said.

"It's not the same." Ghira said leaning back in his chair and crossing his arms. Kali smiled at the scene, he looked like a child right now and she resisted the urge to pinch his cheeks.

"Oh." Velvet said looking at the mug while Jaune looks at Goodwitch with pity.

"Hmm. Feels good to be appreciated." Goodwitch said with a smile.

"Smellwitch!" Lionheart's voice came over the phone making Goodwitch groan.

"Ah, that's a fun little name he likes to use. I once called him Lionfart once, he did not care for that, let me tell you, it was not a good day for me…" Goodwitch told them making them nod before she answered the call. "Yes, sir?"

Ozpin choked on his coffee and slammed a fist against his chest to clear his throat.

Qrow meanwhile spit out his drink and began laughing. "I'm gonna him that, the next time I see him." He said in between laughs. Those that knew the headmaster of Haven had smiles and chuckled at the name.

Pyrrha hid her laughter behind her hand and turned away from the screen to laugh.

Sun and Neptune held their sides as they laughed. Like Qrow, Sun was gonna call his headmaster that at least once just to see his reaction.

Even Sienna laughed a bit at the name. It's rare that she got to laugh. Being the leader of the White Fang didn't really leave a lot of room for laughter or much of anything.

"I thought you were going to cancel my afternoon!" Lionheart yelled through the phone startling Goodwitch.

"Oh, dear. I'd better go." Goodwitch said getting out of her chair and walking to the door. She stopped partway and turned to Jaune and Velvet. "Let me know what you find. It was really nice for me to be –"

"While we're young, Smellwitch!" Lionheart yelled again causing Goodwitch to hurry as she struggles to open the door and quickly leaves.

"You think when she goes to sleep, she counts herself?" Jaune asked Velvet.

"Oh, shush." Velvet said shaking her head slightly and sitting down in front of the computer. "Okay, traffic cams… Tujunga, Tujunga… We're in." The traffic cams show footage of them being chased by Manchas. Velvet switches to another camera and sees a black pull up and two wolves exit the van.

"Who are these guys?"

"Ugh. Timber wolves. Look at these dum-dums." Jaune said looking at the computer screen. The two wolves approached Manchas slowly. One of the wolves gives a hand signal to the other wolf who fired a net gun. Trapping Manchas in the net and they start dragging him to the van.

"Bet ya a nickel one of them's gonna howl." Jaune said and indeed one of the wolves howl and the other does it to. "And there it is. I mean, what is it with wolves and the howling? It's a…"

"Howlers! Night howlers! That's what Manchas was afraid of, wolves!" Velvet said excited pointing at the screen and Jaune looked at her. "The wolves are the Night howlers! If they took Manchas…"

"I bet they took Otterton too!" Jaune said catching on to what Velvet is saying.

"Sounds like a criminal organization." Blake said in between bites from her tuna sandwich. "Like the White Fang."

"We're revolutionaries, not criminals." Sienna said looking at Blake.

"Not from what I saw of the future." Ghira said glancing at Sienna. "Adam killed you and turned the White Fang into one."

Sienna refrained from retorting. There would be plenty of time for that later.

"All we gotta do is find out where they went." Velvet said switching cameras to follow the van as it drove down the road. She followed the van until it entered the tunnel leading to Tundratown. She switched the feed to the camera outside the tunnel in Tundratown but didn't see the van. "Wait, where'd they go?"

"You know, if I wanted to avoid surveillance because I was doing something illegal, which I never have." Jaune said taking the mouse from Velvet who smiles slightly at him. "I would use the maintenance tunnel 6B, which would put them out… right there."

The camera showed the van exiting a smaller tunnel away from the main road.

"Well look at you, junior detective! You know, I think you'd actually make a pretty good cop." Velvet said impressed.

"She's not wrong." Weiss said. "Given his knowledge of the criminal world. He would make a good police officer."

"You can be nice." Yang said with a fake gasp aimed at Weiss.

"And every one in a while, you make a decent joke." Weiss replied making Yang smile.

"Ugh. How dare you." Jaune said faking disgust before looking back at the screen. "Acacia Alley, Ficus Underpass, South Canyon."

"Mm-hm, they're heading out of town. Where does that road go?" Velvet asked seeing the road that the van is taking.

---

Velvet and Jaune followed the road that the van took and found themselves at Cliffside Asylum. They peek over a rock and see the dimly lit building with a vine design in the front of the building. They run to a toll booth, making sure to avoid the wolf guards that patrol the grounds. Jaune sees the wolf guard step out of the toll booth and makes a serious of hand gestures at Velvet before moving to the other side of the toll booth.

"I'm pretty sure he made some of those up." Emilia said recognizing some of the hand gestures.

"I agree." Winter said. "I recognize at least two signals."

"All that's missing is some lightning strikes in the background to complete the creepy setting." Ren said seeing how the building is lit.

"It looks like something out of a horror movie." Jaune said upon seeing the asylum.

"Maybe giant spiders lurk in the dark." Nora said in a low voice. Ruby and Weiss shuddered at the thought. Nora grinned and formed a spider shape with her hands and leaned forward. "They hide in the dark waiting for prey to come. Then they strike from behind."

Weiss shrieked when she felt something like legs on the back of her neck and quickly stood up. Nora laughed at the prank, even though Weiss glared at her.

"I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist." Nora said once she stopped laughing.

"She used to do the same with me." Ren said with a knowing look.

Velvet is confused since she didn't understand Jaune's rapid hand gestures and waits for the guard to move. Unfortunately, the guard perks up when he catches Jaune's scent and starts to follow the scent to Jaune's position. The wolf gets closer to Jaune and is on the verge of being discovered by the wolf guard. Suddenly a wolf howl can be heard making the wolf guard ears perk up and he quickly turns around.

Turns out that Velvet was the one making the wolf howl and soon the wolf guard starts howling.

"Gary, quit it, you're gonna start a howl!" The other wolf guard said stopping Gary from continuing his howl.

"I didn't start it!" Gary said defending himself when Velvet howls again. Gary once again howls and his partner tries to stop him but soon starts howling too, then the other guards begin to howl.

"I like how they can't control their howling." Jaune said after laughing at the scene.

"Once one howls, the rest follow." Nora said grinning.

"Could be a trait left over from their primitive days." Bart mumbled to himself and wrote in his notebook.

"Come on." Velvet said running past Jaune and grabbing his hand, pulling him along. Jaune just smiles at the stunt pulled by Velvet. Together they run across the bridge to the side of the building while the wolf guards continue howling.

"You are a clever bunny." Jaune told Velvet when they are in the clear. Together they look up and see a pipe. They enter the pipe and crawl through it and finally they come upon a hatch, they open it slowly and enter a large room. Velvet uses the light on her phone to help in their search, discarded hospital beds are stacked on each other and pushed against the wall.

"It looks like this was a hospital." Velvet said shining the light on the discarded beds. She shines her light on a door and looks at Jaune. He sighs and approaches the door and reaches for the handle. Just before reaching it Jaune pulls his hand back and pushes Velvet to the door.

"You know, after you. You're the cop." Jaune said and Velvet shot him an annoyed look and turned off the light. Velvet opens the door and looks around. "Okay, all clear." Jaune said peaking over Velvet's shoulder. Velvet rolls her eyes and turns back on the light on her phone and looks around the room.

"All this equipment is brand new." She said noticing the newer equipment in the room. She starts taking pictures.

"Carrots." Jaune said nervously getting her attention. He points down to reveal claw marks on the floor.

"Claw marks."

"Yeah, huge, huge claw marks, I mean what kind of animal…"

A tiger pounces against the glass door that Jaune is standing next to, making him jump back and run behind Velvet.

Ruby and Weiss jumped in their seats. Even Adrian hid behind his plushie.

"I hate that trope." Neptune said referring to the wait until face is against the glass and bam! Jumpscare. It can get old if you've seen it a thousand times.

"Same." Yang said. "At least this isn't horror."

Velvet shines her light at the tiger in the room before shining it down the hallway to reveal similar rooms. They walk down the hall seeing other animals that are naturally predators in the room, all in a savage state. A roar gets their attention and they see Mr. Manchas pacing in the room.

"Mr. Manchas." Velvet said before moving onto the next cell. Jaune briefly looks at Manchas' file before catching up to Velvet. They see Otterton inside, his glasses are broken and his sweater is gone. The moment Velvet shines her light on Otterton, he snarls and retreats under the bed.

"It's him! We found our otter." Velvet moved closer to the glass. "Mr. Otteton, my name is Officer Velvet Scarlatina. Your wife sent me to find you. We're gonna get you out of here…"

Otterton came out from under bed, sniffing and his eyes are black. He then leaped at the glass knocking Jaune and Velvet away and onto their backs in surprise.

"Something tells me he isn't to anxious to leave." Pyrrha said after seeing Otterton act. "His wife might not want to see him in this state as well."

"I agree." Ozpin. "Though she may have to. It'll be hard for her but she needs to see him to understand his situation."

"Speaking from personal experience?" Leon asked looking at the headmaster.

"Yes." Ozpin said with a frown as thoughts of Salem went through his mind.

"Or not! Guess he's in no rush to get home to the missus." Jaune said getting back to his feet.

"Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen… Not including Manchas, it's… it's fourteen." Velvet said thinking back to her first day. "Chief Ironwood handed out fourteen missing mammal files… They're all here! All the missing mammals are right here!"

A mechanical sound is heard by the two. They look down the hallway and see the mechanical door start to open. Jaune and Velvet quickly hide in an empty cell.

"Enough! I don't want excuses, Doctor, I want answers." Mayor Lionheart said walking next to a badger wearing a lab coat. Velvet peeks out from her hiding spot to better see what's going on.

"He's involved?!" Sun and Neptune said at the same time. Both are shocked to see their headmaster involved with the disappearances.

"I guess even good men can be corrupted." Glynda said shaking her head at the scene. Ozpin knew from experience that is the case for some.

"Even those that appear nice can be hiding a darker side to them." Ghira said with a sigh. How many of his so called friends betrayed him and sided with the White Fang in their new direction?

"Guess you never know someone, huh?" Qrow said taking a sip from his flask.

Willow thought back to Jacque and when they first met. They marriage was arranged and they tried to get along in the early days. Jacque had appeared genuine at first but as the years went on, he showed his true self. A man that didn't care for her or their children, he only cared about profits and pleasing the board.

"Mayor Lionheart, please. We're doing everything we can." The Doctor said.

"Really? 'Cause I've got a dozen and half animals here who've gone off the rails crazy, and you can't tell me why!" Lionheart said gesturing to the many animals locked up. Velvet took out her phone and started to record the interaction between the two. "Now, I'd call that awfully far from doing everything'!"

"Sir, it may be time to consider their biology." The Doctor said. Velvet has a confused look and Jaune gives a suspicious look at the Doctor.

"What? What do you mean 'biology'?" Lionheart asked in anger and confusion.

"The only animals going savage are predators." The Doctor said looking at the data on her clipboard. "We cannot keep it a secret; we need to come forward!"

"Hm. Great idea. Tell the public." Lionheart said pretending to think. "And how do you think they're gonna feel about their mayor… Who is a lion! I'll be ruined!" He yelled. Velvet and Jaune look at each other in worry.

"Well, what does Chief Ironwood say?" The Doctor asked using the clipboard as a barrier between her and the Mayor.

"Chief Ironwood doesn't know. And we are going to keep it that way." Lionheart told the Doctor pointing a finger at her. Suddenly Velvet's phone goes off as her parents try to call her, she quickly silences her phone but it's too late.

"Always happens at the worst time." Yang said with a shake of her head.

"Do you think that Ironwood is involved?" Sun asked his partner.

"I don't think so." Neptune said crossing his arms. "It sounds like he's in the dark about what's going on."

"Someone's here!" Lionheart said starting to scan the area.

"Sir, you need to go. Now!" The Doctor said ushering the Mayor out of the room. "Security, sweep the area!" The Doctor closed the door and an alarm went off, the door to the cell Jaune and Velvet closes locking them in.

Jaune tries to open the door but it won't budge. Velvet looks at the door and sees the silhouette of the wolf guards approaching the door.

"Great! We're dead! We're dead, that's it!" Jaune said giving up on the door and leans against the toilet not realizing that it's a toilet. "I'm dead, you're dead, everybody's dead!"

"Can you swim?" Velvet asked while putting her phone in a plastic bag.

"What? Can I swim? Yes, I can swim. Why?" Jaune asked not sure why Velvet is asking.

"Please don't do it." Weiss pleaded already seeing what they're going to do.

"Do you see another way out?" Blake asked Weiss and she didn't have an answer. "At least the toilet will be empty when they go."

"Let's just hope the pipes don't lead to the treatment facility." Yang said with a grimace at the thought. As did everyone else in the room. "Or they don't get stuck in the pipes."

Three wolves enter the room carrying taser guns, they search the cells. One of them notices a toilet post flush, he tilts his head in confusion.

---

Jaune and Velvet slide down the pipe and fly out of the pipe, screaming. They fall down a waterfall and hit the water. Jaune emerges first and looks around.

"Carrots? Scarlatina?" Jaune yelled searching for Velvet. "Velvet?!"

Velvet emerges a distance away from Jaune and holds up her phone still in the plastic bag.

"We gotta tell Ironwood."

"They now have evidence and the location of the missing mammals." Jaune said with a smile. "He's got to listen now."

"It would be hard to ignore the video of the Mayor talking about the missing mammals." Ren said.

"Velvet cracked the case in less than two days." Coco said with pride. "Way to go bun-bun."

"Thanks." Velvet said proud that she managed to do something that the others cops couldn't do.

"She's a super cop!" Nora said with a fist raised in the air. "That can't be stopped."

"They still need to arrest Lionheart and gather evidence as to what they were doing?" Pyrrha said looking at her energetic teammate. "It's too soon to celebrate."

"Boo, got to ruin it for me." Nora said to Pyrrha putting her arm down.

In his office, Ironwood is watching the dancing app that Clawhauser was watching earlier. He moves with the beat and his face is on the tiger's body.

"Wow, you are one hot dancer, Chief Ironwood." The fake Gazelle said on the app. Clawhauser enters his office and Ironwood quickly puts the phone away.

"Chief Bogo!" Clawhauser yelled opening the door.

"Not now!" Ironwood said putting his hoofs over the phone.

"Wait, is that Gazelle?" Clawhauser asked recognizing her voice anywhere.

"No!"

"Again, wow." Yang said surprised that Ironwood would be a fan.

"Guess everyone has a hidden side to them." Willow said with a chuckle at the scene. "Were you ever like that?" She asked James.

James shrugged his shoulders. "I was young once."

The screen changed to show a picture of a young James when he was still a student at Atlas. He is posing with his team. James had slightly longer hair that still complied with the strict uniform code of Atlas. He also wore a mischievous smirk, also he didn't wear the outer jacket and just wore the vest with his shirt sleeves rolled up.

"You look hot." Yang said with a whistle at the photo of young James.

"Yang!" Tai yelled at his daughter.

James felt uncomfortable at being called hot by a student. Looking at the photo brought back pleasant memories of his academy days, going through the halls of Atlas academy and making friends, getting into trouble and having dates. How he wished to live the days again and be free from hours of paperwork and managing military personal, along with not having to worry about an immortal being that is bent on the destruction of Remnant.

Willow smiled and lightly blushed at the photo of James in his younger days. He was handsome back then and in her opinion grew more handsome as he got older.

The screen went back to the showing.

"I'm Gazelle, and you are one hot dancer." The fake Gazelle said muffled by Ironwood's hooves.

"You have the app too?" Clawhauser asked overjoyed. "Aww, Chieeeeeef!"

"Clawhauser! Can't you see I'm working on the missing mammal cases?!" Ironwood said embarrassed and points to the pin board with the photos of the missing mammals.

"Oh, oh, oh, yes, of course, about that sir…" Clawhauser said being reminded of the reason he barged into the office. "Officer Scarlatina just called – she found all of them!"

Ironwood has a surprised look on his face at the news.

"Wow, I'm impressed!"

"I bet." Ilia said from her spot. "Maybe if he did his job instead of messing around with apps, they would have made progress in the case."

"I'm sure they were working the case." Blake said looking at Ilia. "They just didn't any good leads to go off of, or any witnesses."

"Nobody said police work would be easy." Sun said from his spot. "Kind of like huntsmen and huntresses."

The adults in the room nodded in agreement. Life isn't easy and will at times beat you down.

"Hopefully they at least acknowledge Velvet's role in finding the missing mammals." Jaune said.

"They are a fool not too." James said, then again there have been instances where those in charge take the credit for themselves in order to boost their own image and ranking. He just hoped that nothing similar happened to Velvet.

The ZPD swarm the Asylum in force and Ironwood is escorting Mayor Lionheart out of the building in cuffs. Velvet is walking beside them.

"Mayor Lionheart, you have the right to remain silent. Anything –" Velvet began reading him his rights.

"You don't understand!" Lionheart said interrupting her. "I was trying to protect the city!"

"You were just trying to protect your job." Velvet said looking at Lionheart.

"No! listen, we still don't know why this is happening." Lionheart told her. "It could destroy Zootopia!"

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you…" Velvet continued reading Lionheart his rights. The other officers bring out the Doctor in handcuffs.

Jaune walks up to the officers wearing sunglasses and holding a coffee cup. The other officer look at Jaune with suspicion and he responds by showing them his sticker badge and walks away while taking a sip of coffee.

"Like a badass." Sun said with a smile.

"He did help with the case." Neptune said drinking some soda. "I wonder if this is going to inspire him to become a cop."

"He already has the badge." Nora said looking at the sticker badge. "He's a junior detective, and he's got the whole cop vibe down with the shades."

"I can see it happening." Ren said adjusting himself in the seat. "Maybe it will be Velvet that pushes him onto that path."

"They do have a good camaraderie." Leon said seeing how the two of them easily worked together despite their differences.

At the ZPD, various news stations and their reporters are preparing for the press release in regards to the missing mammals. Chief Ironwood is at the podium set up inside the lobby of the ZPD.

"Ladies and gentle-mammals, fourteen mammals went missing, and all fourteen have been found by our newest recruit, who will speak to you in a moment." Ironwood told them. Velvet and Jaune are off the side of the podium. Jaune is casually leaning against the wall while Velvet is nervous.

"Ohh, I'm so nervous." Velvet said chewing her lower lip.

"Okay. Press Conference 101. You wanna look smart, answer their question with your own question and then answer that question. Like this:" Jaune then pretended to be a news reporter and holds a pretend mic. "'Excuse me, Officer Scarlatina, uh, what can you tell us about the case?'"

Jaune then pretends to be Velvet, much to her amusement. "'Well, was this a tough case? Yes, yes it was." He then switches back to his normal voice. "You see?"

"You should be up there with me." Velvet said. "We did this together."

"Well, am I a cop?" Jaune asked rhetorically. "No. No, I am not."

"Hm. Funny you should say that. Because, well, I've been thinking… it would be nice to have a partner" Velvet said pulling out a ZPD application and hands it to Nick. "Here, in case you need something go write with." She hands him the carrot pen.

Jaune takes the application and carrot pen. He smiles at her.

"Called it." Neptune said with a proud smile.

"Good advice for handling interviews." Glynda said having used the same thing herself. "Though some reporters catch on."

"Officer Scarlatina! It's time." Goodwitch said catching her attention. Velvet looks at Jaune and crosses her fingers, she chuckles nervously before heading over to the podium.

"They appear to be in good health, physically, if not emotionally." Ironwood told the press. "So now, I'll turn things over to the officer who cracked the case, Officer Velvet Scarlatina."

Velvet takes a deep breath and walks up to the podium. The reporters ask their questions all at once, trying to get Velvet's attention. She looks at the many reporters and points to a random reporter in the crowd.

"Uh, yes?"

"What can you tell us about the animals going savage?" The reporter asked pointing the mic at her.

"Well, the… the animals in question…" Velvet looks at Jaune for help, who encourages her to continue. "Are they all different species? Yes, yes they are." The reporters quickly write down what she said and Jaune gives her a thumbs up

"Okay, so what is the connection?" Another reporter asked.

"Oh, all we know is that they are all members of the predator family." Velvet said based off what she knows.

"So, predators are the only ones going savage?" A sheep reporter asked.

"That is accu—Yes, that is accurate, yes." Velvet confirmed.

"Why? Why is this happening?"

"We still don't know." Velvet answered causing the reporters to begin speculating. "But it may have something to do with biology" Jaune finished his application proud and looks at Velvet when he hears her words.

"What do you mean by that?" A reporter asks.

"A biological component. You know, something in their DNA."

"In their DNA, can you elaborate on that, please?"

"Yes. What I mean is, thousands of years ago, uh, predators survived through their… aggressive hunting instincts." Velvet told the reporters and Jaune is confused by what she is saying and puts the application away. He sees the large screen behind Velvet. "For whatever reasons, they seem to be reverting back to their primitive, savage ways."

Jaune sees the images of the savage predators muzzled and he thinks back to his childhood when he was muzzled.

"Oh, no." Blake said knowing where this'll lead to.

"What?" Ruby asked her teammate.

"She's unintentionally putting the blame on the predators." Kali said looking at Ruby with a tired expression. "This will lead to fear being spread among the populace. They're going to be afraid of the predators, in that they could go savage at any time."

"She only stating the facts, yet at the same time showing her unintended bias towards predators." Ghira added looking at the screen. Its amazing how this parallels the faunus and their plight.

"Officer Scarlatina, could it happen again?"

"It is possible, so we must be vigilant, and we at the ZPD are prepared and are here to protect you." Velvet reassured the press and the public.

"Will more mammals go savage?"

"What is being done to protect us?"

"Have you considered a mandatory quarantine on predators?"

The reporters questions pile up and Chief Ironwood and Goodwitch look at each other before Goodwitch goes to help Velvet.

"Okay, thank you, Officer Scarlatina." Goodwtch said standing next to Velvet. "Uh, that's all the time we have. No more questions." Goodwitch leads Velvet away as reporters continue to ask their questions.

"Was I okay?" Vevlet asks still nervous.

"Oh, you did fine!" Goodwitch reassures her before Velvet goes over to Jaune.

"She doesn't know what she's done." Sienna said with a slight shake of her head.

"Let's hope things are better." Kali said, 'than our situation', went unsaid to the others in the room.

"Oh, that went so fast. I didn't get to mention you or say anything about how we-" Velvet said standing in front of Jaune.

"Oh, I think you said plenty." Jaune said holding up his paw and cutting her off.

"What do you mean?" Velvet asked confused.

"'Clearly there's a biological component'?" Jaune repeated what she said to the press. "'These predators may be reverting back to their primitive, savage ways'. Are you serious?"

"I just stated the facts of the case." Velvet said defending her choice of words. "I mean, it's not like a bunny could go savage."

"Right. But a fox could, huh?" Jaune said clearly upset.

"Jaune, stop it! You're not like them."

"Oh, there's a them now." Jaune said not getting angry.

"Oh, shut up me!" Velvet yelled at the screen. "You're making things worse!"

"There's the unintended bias." Blake said having experienced the same thing. She knew people that lumped all faunus together with the White Fang.

Ruby thought back to when Weiss and Blake had their argument about the White Fang. She could see that Weiss had some biases when it came to the White Fang and the faunus in general and maybe Blake did as well. She's just glad that they were able to put aside their biases and work together as a team.

"Ugh. You know what I mean. You're not that kind of predator." Velvet said trying to calm him down.

"The kind that needs to be muzzled?" Jaune said pointing to the images of the muzzled predators. "The kind that makes you think you need to carry around fox repellent." He points to the fox repellent making Velvet sigh in shame. "Yeah, don't think I didn't notice that little item the first time we met."

"So, l-let me ask you a question: Are you afraid of me?" Jaune asks and Velvet doesn't answer but is shocked by his question, her nose slightly twitches. "Do you think I might go nuts? Do you think I might go "savage"?" Jaune's voice lowers and he bares his claws.

"Do you think I might try to… eat you?"

Velvet gasps and takes a step back, unknowingly she opened the strap for the fox repellent. Her paw inches from grabbing it.

"I knew it." Jaune said with a scoff and lowers his arms when he sees that she's ready to use the fox repellent. The hurt in his eyes is visible to see. Velvet looks at what she's doing with horror. She quickly takes her hand away from the fox repellent. "Just when I thought somebody believed in me, huh."

Jaune takes the application and hands it to Velvet who takes it. "Probably best if you don't have a predator as a partner." He said before leaving. Velvet looks at the application and sees that its completed, she looks up and sees Jaune passing by the reporters and tearing off his sticker badge and throws it away.

"No, Jaune! Jaune!" Velvet said chasing after him to stop him but is stopped when the reporters block her path.

"Officer Scarlatina, were you just threatened by that predator?" A reporter asks, showing his mic in her face.

"No, he's my friend." Velvet told them trying to get past them.

"We can't even trust our own friends?!" Another reporter asks.

"That is not what I said. Please-" Velvet said trying to get out from the crowd of reporters that are swarming her.

"Are we safe?"

"Have any other foxes gone savage?"

Velvet can't believe what she is hearing from the reporters.

"Trust the media to twist her words." Glynda said with a frown.

Ozpin took a sip from his coffee cup. "Not all reporters are bad. It's the ones that are desperate for a story that you need to be wary of."

"Like blue journalism?" Jaune asked his headmaster.

"Exactly, I'm surprised that you know about that." Ozpin said genuinely surprised.

"I had to write a paper on the subject." Jaune said with a shrug.

"More bad news in this city gripped by fear." A news anchor said sitting next to her co-host. "A caribou is in critical condition, the victim of a mauling by a savage polar bear."

The footage shows a caribou being loaded into an ambulance and the police. The police try and restrain a muzzled polar bear.

"This, the 27th such attack, comes just one week after ZPD officer Velvet Scarlatina connected the violence to traditionally predatory animals." The anchor turned to her co-host.

"Meanwhile, a peace rally organized by pop star Gazelle was marred by protest."

The news station shows footage of the rally, where both predatory and prey are holding hands in a circle. Surrounding them are protesters shouting at them.

"Go back to the forest, predator!" A protester shouted to a predator holding a sign for peace.

"I'm from the savannah!" The predator replied. Velvet is between them trying to keep the peace.

"Zootopia is a unique place. It's a crazy, beautiful diverse city where we celebrate our differences." Gazelle told the reporter interviewing her. "This is not the Zootopia I know. The Zootopia I know is better than this."

---

Velvet is on the train and sees in front of her two bunnies, a mom and a child. She sees a tiger sit down on the same seat as them, he is reading a newspaper. The mother looks at the tiger and pulls her child closer to her. She looks nervously at the tiger as does her child.

Everyone shook their heads at the scene, especially the faunus since they have to deal with situations like what is being shown on screen.

Blake looked away being reminded of her youth and the prejudices she had to deal with.

Weiss also looking in shame since she wasn't any better than the mother and child. She had grown up hearing her father ranting about the White Fang and the losses caused by them. Unknown to her at the time, she had started to hate the White Fang and that is where unintended biases and prejudices slowly started. Thankfully, with the help of Blake, she is now slowly starting to rid herself of the thoughts.

Velvet is shocked at the scene in front of her.

"We don't just blindly assign blame. We don't know why these attacks keep happening, but it is irresponsible to label all predators as savages."

"Exactly!" Kali said pointing a finger at the screen. "If only everyone thought like this."

"And maybe the Grimm would kill each other off." Sienna said looking at Kali. "It's pointless to think about hypotheticals. Focus on what's in your power to change."

Ghira placed a hand on Kali's arm. "Easy, you can talk with her when we have time."

Kali accepted her husband's words and went back to watching the screen.

In the hospital, Mrs. Otterton sees her husband in his savage state pacing the sealed off room. He is tethered to a pole in the middle of the room, snarling. Velvet walks up to her and places a hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

"That's not my Emmitt." Mrs. Otterton said sadly and lowers her head. Velvet looks at the scene with sadness.

---

"We cannot let fear divide us. Please give me back the Zootopia I love." Gazelle told the reporter.

---

Velvet is back at the ZPD, sitting at her desk and writing a report on Emmitt Otterton. Chief Ironwood walks up to her desk and taps the wall getting her attention.

"Come on, Scarlatina. The new mayor wants to see us." Ironwood told her.

"The mayor? Why?" Velvet asked turning around in her seat.

"It would seem you've arrived." Ironwood told her before leaving confusing Velvet. She follows him to the lobby and sees Clawhauser packing his things up.

"Clawhauser?" Velvet said stopping by his desk. "What are you doing?"

"Um… They thought it would be better if a predator, such as myself, wasn't the first face that you see when you walk into the ZPD." Clawhauser informed her setting his laptop into the box with his other stuff.

"What?"

"They're gonna move me to records." Clawhauser said closing the lid on the box. "It's downstairs. It's by the boiler." He said picking up the box and walking away sadly.

Velvet simply looks at him walking off, guilty and upset.

"Scarlatina!" Ironwood yelled from the doors.

"Even the best intentions have consequences." Ozpin said having made a few of them himself. The biggest one would be the maidens.

"Gotta live with your actions." Qrow said looking at Raven and then to Yang. He knew that she never looked back on her decisions, but sometimes he wondered if Raven ever thought about Yang.

"Wise words." Willow said.

Velvet is in the mayor's office and she is holding a requirement poster. On the poster is Velvet smiling and standing proud.

"I don't understand." Velvet said putting the poster down and seeing Goodwitch sitting in the mayor's chair.

"Our city is 90% prey, Velvet, and right now, they're just really scared." Goodwitch said pushing up her glasses. "You're a hero to them. They trust you. And so that's why Chief Ironwood and I want you to be the public face of the ZPD."

Velvet looks at the poster thinking. "I'm not… I'm not a hero. I came here to make the world a better place, but I think I broke it." She said pushing the poster away.

"Don't give yourself so much credit, Scarlatina." Ironwood told her from his spot next to her. "The world has always been broken, that's why we need good cops. Like you."

"Truer words have never been said." Ozpin said looking to the next generation of huntsmen and huntresses. They would grow into their roles of huntsmen and huntresses as they grew up. He had faith in them to do right and always defend the kingdoms from Salem.

"The world would be pretty boring if everything was right." Leon said. "Obstacles help build us and define us. Without that, we'd never learn anything."

Emilia kissed Leon on his cheek. "Ever the poet."

"With all due respect, sir, a good cop is supposed to serve and protect, help the city, not tear it apart." Velvet said to mayor Goodwitch before she unclipped her badge and set it on the desk. "I don't deserve this badge."

"Scarlatina?" Ironwood said surprised by her actions.

"Velvet, you've worked so hard to get here." Goodwitch said trying to get Velvet to reconsider. "It's what you wanted since you were a kid. You can't quit."

"Thank you for the opportunity." Velvet said before getting out of the chair and walks out of the office slowly. Chief Ironwood and Goodwitch sadly watch her leave.

---

Velvet is back in her hometown of Bunnyburrow. Velvet is now working with her parents as a carrot farmer. She is wearing a pink flannel and jeans, along with a straw hat. She rolls up carrots in a newspaper, the headline is about the growing unrest that is happening in the city.

"A dozen carrots." Velvet said in a depressed tone to the customer as she handed the mother her carrots. "Have a nice day."

"Thanks." The mother said holding the bag in one and holding her daughter's hand in the other. "Come on."

Velvet sighs sitting down and slouching in her seat. Meg and Will look at their daughter worried. They dust off their hands and walk over to her.

"Hey there, Vel… Vel the Mellow. Remember that one?" Will said with a chuckle and Meg gives him a look. "How're we doing?"

"I'm fine." Velvet responded looking at the newspaper headline.

"You are not fine, your ears are droopy." Meg said and indeed Velvet's ears are droopy.

"Why did I think I could make a difference?" Velvet said still looking at the headline.

"Hate to break it to you. But everyone who trains as a huntsmen thinks that." Qrow said earning a soft punch curtsey of Summer. "Ow! You know I'm not wrong."

"Still!" Summer said raising her fist and Qrow flinched, bringing his arms up to shield his face.

Yang and Ruby looked at their mother in amazement. Who knew that their mom could make uncle Qrow flinch in fear. The man had always seemed unafraid of anything, yet he seemed like a child about to be disciplined by his mother.

"Same old Summer." Raven said seeing the interaction between the two. It seems that Qrow still knows how to push Summer's buttons.

"Because you're a trier, that's why." Will told his daughter trying to lift her spirits up.

"You've always been a trier." Meg agreed with Will.

"Oh, I tried. And I made life so much worse for so many innocent predators." Velvet told them pointing to the picture on the paper. A van horn goes off catching the attention of Will and Meg as a van pulls up.

"Oh! Not all of them, though." Will said as a van parks in front of the food stand. 'Cardin Winchester's Real Good Baked Stuff with Fresh produce from Scarlatina's Family Farm' is written on the side of the can. "Speak of the devil, right on time."

"Cardin's back?" Velvet said with a tilt of her head. "And running a bakery?"

"Did not see that coming." Jaune said leaning in his seat. "I wonder what he's like now."

"Maybe he changed his attitude." Velvet said leaning back in his seat. "It's been years."

"Is that… Cardin Winchester?" Velvet asks when she sees an older Cardin exit the van.

"Yep! Sure it is. We work with him now." Will said with pride.

"He's our partner, and we never would have considered it had you not opened our minds." Meg said putting an arm around Will.

"That's right, I mean Cardin's turned into one of the top pastry chefs in the Tri-Burrows." Will told Velvet while Cardin opened the back of the van.

"I guess people can change." Coco said wondering if their Cardin can change in the future.

"I wonder what type of pastries he makes." Penny wondered already thinking of different pastries. She couldn't wait to try them all, now that she is human with actual taste buds instead of artificial ones.

"I hope cookies." Ruby said already imagining a plate of chocolate cookies ready to be devoured.

"That's… That's really cool, you guys." Velvet said amazed that her parents are partners with a fox after her father's views on foxes. Velvet goes to the back of the van where Cardin is taking out pastries. "Cardin Winchester. I'll be darned."

Cardin looks up when he hears Velvet and turns to face her. "Hey, Velvet. I'd just like to say, I'm sorry for the way I behaved in my youth." Cardin stammered out an apology. "I-I-I had a lot of self-doubt and it manifested itself in the form of unchecked rage and aggression."

"I was a major jerk."

"Amazing how the years can change a person." Glynda said impressed that Cardin apologized for his action committed in his youth.

"At least he admits it." Emilia said with a small smile. "Also this is how reunions with childhood friends go. It's very awkward and you're not sure what to say after seeing the person you barely remember again after many years."

"Tell me about it." Coco said crossing her arms under her chest. "I ran into a guy in knew from my childhood. You should have seen his face when I told him that I was in Beacon training to be a huntress."

"What, huntresses turned him on?" Sun asked looking at Coco.

"No, he looked at me like I grew a second head." Coco said after a sigh. "Do you ever get the feeling that being a huntsmen as made us unusual?"

"Absolutely." Jaune said looking at Coco and drew the attention of everyone in the room. "You guys start training at middle school age and continue till you graduate from a training academy. While other students are learning math and English. You are learning to handle a mechashift weapon and designing your own. That alone already makes you unusual."

"Are you saying we lack social skills?" Yang asked turning in her seat to face Jaune.

"No, but from a civilians point of view. Being trained to handle dust and make your own ammunition is pretty unusual." Jaune explained since he went to a normal school and based from what he's seen during his time at Beacon. Everyone was pretty unusual.

"He's not wrong." Ozpin added before taking a long sip from his coffee cup and sighed in content.

"Well, I know a thing or two about being a jerk." Velvet said with a smile. Her parents join her.

"Anyhow, I-I brought y'all these pies." Cardin tells them taking out a tray with two pies on it.

"Those look delicious." Penny said drooling slightly at the sight of the pies. "I wonder what kind they are."

Another flash of light and everyone save for Adrian now had a slice of pie from Cardin's shop.

"Blueberry, my favorite." Ren said cutting a slice with the fork and ate it. Soon he had a smile on his face. He could taste the blueberries and also a hint of lemon.

"The man can bake. This is good." Coco said after having her first bite and going back for seconds.

Penny didn't say much as she enjoyed the blueberry pie. She enjoyed the taste with a pleasant smile.

Will hears kids shouting and turns to see them running towards them. "Hey, kids! Don't you run through those Midnicampum holicithius!" He yelled waving a finger at them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" The older sibling said holding their arms out and stopping their siblings.

"Well, now there's a four-dollar word, Mr. S, my family always just called them Night howlers." Cardin said standing next to them holding the tray.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Velvet said stunned to hear what Cardin just said.

"Oh, Cardin's talking about those flowers, Velvet." Will said pointing to the purple flowers that are sitting on the edges of the field. "I use 'em to keep the bugs off the produce, but I don't like the little ones going near 'em on account of what happened to your Uncle Terry."

"Yeah, Terry ate one whole when we were kids and went completely nuts." Meg said looking at her daughter.

"He bit the dickens out of your mother." Will added.

"A bunny can go savage." Velvet said as realization dawns on her.

"Not wolves, but a flower, Huh." Pyrrha said amazed that such a flower could drive a mammal into a savage state.

"Nature is indeed very strange." Bart said before giving the plate to a droid. "There are many things that are still undiscovered in nature."

"There were tribes that would consume fauna that had hallucinogenic properties." Ozpin said. "They believed that the visions granted by the plants would show them the hidden truth."

"You probably consumed some as well." James said looking at Ozpin.

Ozpin didn't answer but raised a fork with some pie in his direction.

"Savage? Well, that's a strong word, but it did hurt like the devil." Meg said recalling the pain.

"Well, sure it did. There's a sizable divot in your arm." Will said pointing to her arm. "I'd call that savage."

"Night howlers aren't wolves, they're flowers." Velvet said putting the pieces together slowly. "The flowers are making the predators go savage. That's it! That's what I've been missing." Velvet runs for the truck but stops and quickly turns around.

"Oh, keys, keys, keys, hurry come on!" Velvet tells her dad who searches for the keys and tosses them when he finds them. Velvet catches them and quickly enters the truck. "Thank you! I love you, bye!"

Velvet starts the truck and drives off, leaving a dust trail behind and her parents bewildered, along with Cardin.

"You catch any of that, Meg?" Will asks seeing the truck fade in the distance as it speeds off towards Zootopia.

"Not one bit."

"Well, that makes me feel a little bit better, I thought she was talking in tongues or something." Cardin said still holding the tray full of pies.

"I bet she's going to find Jaune and tell him the news." Ruby said after she finished off her pie. "He did help her."

"That's a fool's bet." Weiss said taking her time to savor the good pie.

"How is she going to find him?" Blake asked setting her fork down. "He probably doesn't want to be found and he won't make it easy for her to find him."

"What about his accomplice from the ice cream parlor?" Nora asked thinking back to earlier in the show. "He probably knows where to find him."

"Again, she first has to find him." Blake said.

Velvet sees the skyscrapers of Zootopia in the distance and knows that she is nearing her destination. She drives through Sahara Square, looking for Jaune until she sees a familiar van parked in an alleyway. Quickly hitting the brakes, she gets out of the truck and approaches the back of the van and knocks.

Jaune's accomplice opens the door holding a baseball bat.

"Who is it?!" He shouts furious that someone is disturbing him and calms down when he spots Velvet.

"I need to find Jaune. Please." Velvet said desperately.

---

Velvet is walking over a stone bridge trying to find Jaune. "Jaune? Jaune?" She goes to the other side of the bridge and peers over to see Jaune lounging on a chair and wearing sunglasses, he is also drinking a soda.

"Oh, Jaune." Velvet said relived that she found him and goes down the hill to him. "Night howlers aren't wolves, they're toxic flowers! I think someone is targeting predators on purpose and making them go savage."

"Wow. Isn't that interesting?" Jaune said setting down his cup and removing his sunglasses before getting up and walking under the bridge. Velvet, distraught, still follows him under the tunnel.

"Wait! Uh, wait, listen! I-I know you'll never forgive me, and I don't blame you- I wouldn't forgive me either." Velvet said slowing down and Jaune stops walking but doesn't turn to face her. "I was ignorant, and irresponsible, and small minded. But predators shouldn't suffer because of my mistakes. I have to fix this. But I can't do it without you." Velvet says and Jaune still doesn't turn to look at her. She is struggling to hold back her tears as her bottled up emotions slowly emerge.

"And after we're done, you can hate me." Velvet says tearfully and her voice is breaking. "And… and that'll be fine, because I was a horrible friend, and I hurt you, and you… and you can walk away knowing that you were right all along – I really am just a dumb bunny." She said crying and lowering her head.

"If he doesn't accept her apology. I'm gonna find a way to this world and kick his ass." Coco said cracking her knuckles. She didn't like to see her friends cry.

"At least she admits her faults." Leon said. "Not many do and choose to hide it."

"First step is admitting your faults." Ghira said setting his plate aside. "Then you begin working on fixing them."

"I really am just a dumb bunny."

Velvet tearfully looks up when she hears her own voice. Jaune holds up her carrot pen and clicks the rewind button and the recording plays again.

"I really am just a dumb bunny."

"Don't worry, Carrots. I'll let you erase it… in 48 hours." Jaune said finally turning to face her, he is smiling at her. Velvet smiles and cries tears of joy, she wipes away a tear. "All right, get in here." He said holding his arms out. Velvet approaches and puts her head against his chest and cries. Jaune hugs her which makes her cry more as she hugs him back.

"Okay, oh, you bunnies, you're so emotional." Jaune said patting her head. "There we go, deep breath. Are you- are you just trying to steal the pen? Is that what this is?" Jaune asked holding the pen out of her reach. Velvet laughs and cries at the same time, while playfully trying to reach for the pen.

"You are standing on my tail, though." Jaune said becoming serious and winces. "Off, off-off-off."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Velvet apologizes taking a step back.

Sun winced and his tail wrapped around his leg. He's had people step on it and he felt on screen Jaune's pain.

"Aww, they made up." Ruby said happy that the two friends are back together. "Now, they can solve case together."

"Couldn't they just go the Ironwood and tell him the new information." Weiss said setting the fork down. "I mean she is no longer apart of the force."

"She probably feels that this is something needs to do." Leon said looking at Weiss. "After all she told the press about the link to predators going savage. So, she feels responsible for everything that is happening."

"And also feels the need to be one to fix it." Ghira added. "There is also no guarantee that Ironwood will even listen."

Jaune and Velvet are now in the truck and driving down the street. Jaune sees a basket of blueberries on the seat.

"Ooh, I thought you guys only grew carrots!" Jaune said happily taking the basket and eating some blueberries. "Mm! So, what's the plan?"

"We are going to follow the Night howlers." Velvet told him.

"Okay. How?" Jaune asked while taking out a handkerchief and storing some blueberries for later.

"Know this guy?" Velvet asked showing him the picture on her phone. The picture is of the thief that Velvet caught stealing moldy onions.

"Uh-huh. I told you, I know everybody." Jaune said pocketing the blueberries.

---

"Ha-ha! Well, hello! Step right up. Anything you need, I got it." The thief said as a customer walked up to his table full of bootleg movies. Some of the titles are Pig Hero 6, Wrangled, Wreck-It Rhino, Meowana, and Floatzen 2. "All your favorite movies! I've got movies that haven't been released yet!"

The customer waved him off and walked off. The thief tried to make a sale.

"Hey, 15% off. 20!" The thief yelled trying to make the customer come back. "Make me an offer! Come on!"

"Well, well. Look who it is, the Duke of Bootleg." Jaune said getting the thief's attention as he and Velvet walk up.

"What's it to you, Arc? Shouldn't you be melting down a popsicle or something? The thief said before looking to Velvet. "Hey, if it isn't Flopsy the Copsy."

"We both know those weren't moldy onions I caught you stealing." Velvet said crossing her arms. "What were you gonna do with those Night howlers, Weselton?"

"It's Weaselton! Duke Weaselton! And I ain't talking, Rabbit." Weaselton told her. "And there ain't nothing you can do to make me." He said flicking a toothpick in Velvet's face. She and Jaune look at each other slyly.

"I know that look." Coco said glancing at Velvet who shrugged and went back to watching the screen.

"They have something up their sleeves." Yang said with a smile.

"I wonder what it is." Ren wondered.

"Ice him!" Mr. Big told his men who are holding Weaselton above the ice pit. He screams and struggles to get free.

"You dirty rat! Why are you helping her? She's a cop!" Weaselton asked while looking at Jaune and Velvet, who are standing next to Mr. Big. Jaune is drinking from a small cup and Velvet has her arms crossed.

"And the godmother to my future granddaughter." Mr. Big said as he daughter walks up to show that she is pregnant.

"I'm gonna name her Velvet!" Mr. Big's daughter said patting her belly.

"Aww!" Velvet is touched by the gesture, making Mr. Big laugh at the scene then turns back to his men.

"Ice this weasel."

"Talk about an icy situation." Yang said with a smirk.

"I approve of the method." Raven said with a nod. Loss of life has a way of loosening lips.

"Of course you would." James said rolling his eyes at the bandit.

"Ahh! All right, all right, please! I'll talk! I'll talk!" Weaselton yelled when the polar bear lowered him into the ice pit. The polar bear stopped and raised him up. "I stole them Night howlers so I could sell 'em. They offered me what I couldn't refuse – money."

"And to whom did you sell them?" Velvet asked as Jaune took a sip from his cup.

"A ram named Doug. We got a drop spot underground. Just watch it; Doug is the opposite of friendly. He's unfriendly." Weaselton warned them.

---

Jaune and Velvet are walking to an abandoned subway station. They pass another passerby and wait for him to pass before they squeeze through the gates and enter the subway. They see an old train car and wait till a train passes before they run for the old train car.

"Come on." Velvet said running across the tracks after making sure another train isn't coming. They open a window and crawl through. They find a makeshift greenhouse and more Night howlers flowers like the ones on the Scarlatina farm.

"The weasel wasn't lying." Velvet said looking at the flowers as she passed them.

"Yeah, it looks like ol' Doug's cornered the market on Night howlers." Jaune said before a loud bang caught their attention. The see Doug wearing a yellow hazmat suit, he has his back to them, giving them time to hide under the flower tables.

Doug turns around and puts on a gas mask. He picks up a pot full of Night howlers and dumps it all into a vat. Turning the dial, Doug begins the process of turning the flowers into a liquid, the bright blue liquid flows through a series of tubes and a chemistry set. Doug sits down and adjust a lever and watches as the liquid enters a small machine, he sets a clear paintball like pellet on the machine. The machine injects a dark blue liquid into the pellet.

"Such a small thing. Hard to believe that it can plunge a city into fear." Bart said after he finished his slice of pie.

"I wonder how long it took them to perfect the process." Glynda wondered while waiting for her tea to be delivered to help wash down the pie.

"Now they just need evidence." Jaune said shifting in his seat and adjusting Arian in his lap. "Shouldn't be hard since the entire train car is the evidence."

"They still need to find the one in charge of this group." Sun said wishing he had a second helping of the pie. "Otherwise they'll just start again in the future."

Doug's cell phone rings drawing his attention as he gets up and walks over to the desk that he left his cell phone. Jaune and Velvet scurry under the tables until they have a clear view of Doug as he answers his phone.

"You got Doug here. What's the mark? Cheetah in Sahara Square, got it." Doug said cradling the phone between his ear and shoulder as he loaded the pellet into a dart gun. "Yeah, I know they're fast, I can hit 'em. Listen, I hit a tiny little otter through the open window of a moving car."

Velvet gasps and sees a photo of Emmitt Otterton on the bulletin map in front of Doug.

---

Doug is perched on a small hill and looking through a scope. In his sights is Emmitt sitting in the back of the limo. When he has a shot, he takes it and hits Emmitt in the back of the neck, making him go savage.

---

Velvet sees the picture of Manchas on the bulletin board.

---

Doug is now perched on a branch with a clear view of Manchas through the open window. He waits for Manchas to unlock the door before shooting him with the pellet, making him go savage as well.

"They targeted Emmitt because he knew what the flowers could do." Neptune said now slowing putting the pieces together. "Then Manchas because he heard what Emmitt said about the flowers."

"What's their end goal though?" Sun asked leaning back in his seat. "Besides spread fear among the populace."

"Sometimes that is enough." Emilia said crossing her arms. "Fear can be just as effective as a bullet or any weapon."

"She's right." Winter said agreeing with the Arc matriarch. "White Fang tactics for example. Spread as much fear in an attack."

"It's worked so far." Sienna said looking at Winter and Ilia agreed somewhat. Ghira had to suppress the urge to argue with her and looked forward to talking to her about the direction the White Fang is going.

"Yeah, I'll buzz you when it's done." Doug said disassembling the dart gun and putting it into a case. "Or you'll see it on the news, you know, whichever comes first." A knock is heard in the background.

"Hey, Doug, open up! We've got your latte!"

"Alright, Woolter and Jesse are back so I'm leaving now. Out." Doug said ending the call and heading for the door. Velvet crawls out from the hiding spot when Doug's back is turned.

"Where are you going? Where are you going? Get back here! What are you doing, he's gonna see you!" Jaune whispered as Velvet glances at the controls for the train where a red-light blinks with a soft clinking noise. She starts to form an idea. "What are you looking at?! Hey! Whatever you're thinking, stop thinking it! Carrots! Carrots!"

Doug unlocks the door and opens it to reveal two rams. "Better have the extra foam this time-"

Velvet kicks Doug out of the car and closes the door quickly and locks it.

"Hey! Open up!" Woolter yelled banging on the door.

"What are you doing?!" Jaune asked coming out of hiding. "You just trapped us in here!"

"We need to get this evidence to the ZPD." Velvet ordered.

"Okay, great, here it is. Got it." Jaune said closing the case with the dart gun and showing it to Velvet.

"No. All of it!" Velvet said running past him to the controls.

"Now I'm thinking back to our mission at Mt. Glenn." Ruby said and her team agreed. "At least their train isn't equipped with explosives, hopefully."

"You mean aside from the propane tanks that the illegal lab is using." Weiss said looking at Ruby with a raised eyebrow.

"Aside from that."

"They better hope that train starts." Willow said after taking a sip of water. "Who knows how long it's been idle."

"Wait, what?" Jaune asked following Velvet to the control room. Velvet turns the controls on trying to get the old train moving. The lights come on and die with a flicker, Velvet hits the control panel, starting it up again. "Great, you're a conductor now, huh? Hey, listen, it would take a miracle to get this rust bucket going."

Velvet flicks more switches and moves the lever for the speed. With a sudden jerk, the train starts moving.

"Well, hallelujah!" Jaune said surprised that the train is moving after sitting still for so long.

"Are we going to have an epic chase involving a train?" Sun asked giddy at the prospect. He loved over the top action.

"I think we are." Neptune said also sharing Sun's love for over the top action.

"We kinda got a situation at the lab…" Jesse said over the phone. Woolter notices the train moving and quickly chases after it. "Oh! It just got worse!" He yelled dropping the phone and joining Woolter in chasing after the runaway train. They leave Doug to mope over his spilled latte.

---

"Mission accomplished. Would it be premature for me to do a little victory toot-toot?" Jaune asked pointing to the lever that controls the horn.

"All right. One toot-toot." Velvet said while focusing on the track. Jaune pulls the horn twice as Jesse and Woolter catch up to the train and start climbing over it.

"Well, I can cross that off the bucket list." Jaune said proudly.

"That's going on mine." Yang declared.

"You have a bucket list?" Blake asked surprised that she would have one.

"Damn straight, don't you?"

"No." Blake answered honestly.

"What! Isn't there something you've always wanted to do in your life?" Yang asked her partner.

Blake thought about what Yang said for a second and answered. "I guess write my own series of books."

"I already know what genre." Yang teased with smile making Blake blush.

Jaune and Velvet's celebration is cut short as they hear a loud thud on the roof of the train. They turn nervously around to see Woolter breaking through the roof hatch and enter the train. He charges at them, and Jaune quickly closes the steel door and locks him out. A dent is formed when Woolter makes contact with the door, he then tries to open it but can't. Jaune smirks at him through the window and quickly backs away when Woolter headbutts the glass, cracking it.

"I may have to rescind that victory toot-toot." Jaune said while Woolter tries to get in. Another loud thud is heard above like someone walking across the metal. "Maybe that's just hail?"

Jesse breaks through the small window in front of the train and immediately gets stuck in the window. "Come here!" He growls while trying to grab Velvet who backs away.

"Back off!" Jaune yells trying to save her and gets pushed back into the steel door. Jesse tries to grab Velvet by her shirt and she barely manages to keep out of his reach. Jaune feels a bump against the door and looks through the cracked window to see Woolter readying himself for another charge, and runs at the door full speed.

"Incoming!" Jaune yells opening the door and Woolter charges in heading for the front window. He rams into Jesse knocking him out of the window and onto the tracks, and gets stuck in the window himself. Unfortunately, Velvet got caught in the charge and is now hanging off his ram horns.

"Talk about using your head." Jaune said making Adrian laugh and his team laugh.

"I used the same technique on a Boarbatusk." Peter said making everyone internally groan. "I was near a cliff and the beast charged at me, but I dodged at the last second and the beast went flying off the cliff towards his doom."

Everyone waited for him to continue his story but he never did and simply ate his pie in peace. Everyone went back to watching the screen.

"Carrots!" Jaune yelled now at the controls and sees Velvet hanging off Woolter's horns.

"Don't stop, keep going." Velvet shouts.

"No! No! Please stop!" Jesses shouts running as fast as he can in front of the train.

"Do not stop this car!"

Jesse kept running and quickly leaps to the side of the tunnel and hugs the wall to escape the oncoming train. The train passes Jesse and he looks down to see his belly has been sheared by the train.

Everyone laughed at the scene.

Woolter glances up to see Velvet still hanging off his horns and tosses her on top of the train. She lands on top of the train and narrowly misses being hit by a signal light. Meanwhile, Woolter punches through the glass, still trying to get at the controls. The train exits the tunnel, Velvet looks up to see another train headed towards them. She sees a track junction fast approaching and a track switch. Forming an idea, she pokes her head through the opened vent above the control room.

"Speed up, Jaune, speed up!" She shouted at him.

"There's another train coming!" Jaune said pointing to the coming train.

"Trust me. Speed up!" Velvet yelled getting ready to enact her plan. Jaune grunts as he moves the throttle up, increasing the train's speed. Woolter notices the speed pick up and looks ahead to see the train headed for them.

"Stop the train!" Woolter shouted trying to get unstuck as the two trains come closer to colliding.

"Hey! Need some help?" Velvet asks before jumping down and kicking Woolter out of the window and off the train. Woolter lands on the track switch, the junction shifts just in time and the train makes a sudden turn away from the oncoming train.

However, the high speed of the train caused it to tip over.

"Oh no, oh no, no, no, too fast! Too fast, hold on!" Jaune yelled as the train car tipped more to one side. Jaune and Velvet hang on as the train car lands on its side and continues to slide down the tracks on its side. Sparks fly everywhere, and this sparks a fire in the lab as propane tanks roll around.

Jaune and Velvet look forward to see the end of the line is coming up fast, and the wall they are about to crash into.

"I think this is our stop!" Jaune yelled as they jump off the train car onto the abandoned subway station. They see the train crash into the wall in a fiery crash.

"No, there goes the evidence." Ruby cried upon seeing the train car go up in flames.

"Maybe some of the evidence survived." Sun said with a shrug. Though he knew the odds of that is low.

"Why did you say that?" Nora asked looking at Sun.

"Okay, maybe… Maybe some of the evidence survived." Velvet said out of breath and the propane tanks detonate destroying the train and the evidence, and sending debris everywhere. One of the propane tanks fly out of the wreckage on fire, Jaune and Velvet dodge the flaming debris. The flaming tank lands behind them and explodes making them flinch.

"Everything is gone." Velvet said stunned, looking at the wreckage. "We've lost it all…"

"Yeah. Oh, except for this." Jaune said holding up the case with the dart gun and laughs triumphantly.

"Ooh, Jaune! Yes!" Velvet shouted overjoyed and punches him in the arm. She puts a little too much force behind the punch.

"Ow…" Jaune winced as Velvet takes the case and gets up.

"Come on! We gotta get to the ZPD. Cut through the Natural History Museum!" Velvet said as Jaune followed close behind.

They run up the stairs and enter the museum which is closed. They run past the many exhibits and before long find themselves looking at the exit leading to the street.

"Look, there it is!" Velvet said pointing to the exit. A voice makes them stop.

"Velvet! Velvet!" Goodwitch is walking to them, she is flanked by two sheep cops.

"Mayor Goodwitch!" Velvet and Jaune run to her and the cops. "We found out what's happening. Someone's darting predators with a serum. That's what making them go savage!" She told the mayor when they reached her.

"I'm so proud of you, Velvet." Goodwitch said. "You did just a super job."

"How did she get there so fast?" Li asked with suspicion. "Something isn't right."

"I agree." An said finding it suspicious that Goodwitch just happened to be there waiting for them.

"Do you think that Goodwitch is working with them?" Ren asked his parents. He agreed that the timing is off.

"Goodwitch working with criminals, ha. That'll be the day." Peter said with a chuckle.

"This is a different world, Peter." Bart told his friend. "This Glynda could be different to ours."

"Let's watch and see." Li said.

"Thank you, ma'am." Velvet said starting to hand the case over. But, she stops and looks at her with suspicion and confusion. "How did you know where to find us?"

"I'll go ahead and take that case, now." Goodwitch reaches for the case and Velvet pulls back and holds it close. She and Jaune slowly walk back.

"Uh, you know what." Velvet said as she and Jaune slowly walk backwards. Jaune gives the mayor a thumbs up. "I think Jaune and I will just take this to the ZPD." She said turning to exit and see a sinister looking ram blocking their path. He stares at them and cracks his neck, ready to attack.

"Run!" Jaune and Velvet said at the same time. They run deeper into the museum, with Velvet holding onto the case for dear life.

"Get them!" Goodwitch ordered her men. They immediately give chase.

"Okay, I didn't see that coming." Sun said surprised that Goodwitch would be the one behind the chaos. It's always the ones you least suspect.

"I wonder what her motives are." Glynda said just as surprised that her on screen counterpart is the one behind the predator attacks. Different world, different person.

"It's always the quiet ones." Yang said glancing at Blake.

"That's right, we could be plotting something nefarious right under your noses." Blake said crossing her arms and looking back at Yang. "And you'd never know."

Jaune and Velvet try to lose their pursuers in the closed sections of the museum. Velvet looks behind her to check if the rams are following, as a result she doesn't see the tusk that is left out. She trips and cuts her leg on the tusk. Velvet holds her leg and sees the cut on her leg and winces as she applies pressure on the wound.

"Carrots!" Jaune said hearing her trip and goes to help her. "I got you. Come here." He helped Velvet up and helped her walk. Picking up the case along the way. He sets her down in a relative safe place.

Velvet winces as she sits back. She holds the case close.

"Okay, just relax." Jaune told her pulling out the handkerchief to wrap her leg. He accidentally spills a few blueberries on the floor. "Whoops! Blueberry?"

"Pass." Velvet said in pain as Jaune eats a blueberry and tends to her leg. They hear Goodwitch's voice in the distance.

"Come on out, Velvet."

Velvet peeks out from the corner and sees her silhouette behind the curtain.

"Take the case." Velvet whispered handing the case to Jaune. "Get it to Ironwood."

"I'm not gonna leave you behind; that's not happening." Jaune whispered back pushing the case back to Velvet.

"I can't walk!"

"Just… we'll think of something." Jaune said looking around.

"We're on the same team, Velvet!" Goodwitch said walking into the same area as Jaune and Velvet. She has her two guards beside her, shining their lights across the room. "Underestimated, underappreciated… Aren't you sick of it?" She motions for her guard to spread out.

"Predators – they may be strong and loud, but prey outnumber predators ten-to-one." Goodwitch sees a rabbit shaped shadow on the wall. She snaps her fingers to one of the rams and points to the shadow. The ram turns off the light and slowly approaches the shadow. "Think of it – 90% of the population united against a common enemy. We'll be unstoppable."

"She did all this for power?" Peter asked in confusion.

"Sounds like it." Bart said.

"And she's willing to do anything to keep ahold of it." Ozpin said having seen people like her before.

"That's messed up." Jaune said shaking his head at the notion. "How many innocents are going to suffer because of her?"

"Too many." Kali said with a heavy sigh. This is exactly what the White Fang are doing to the faunus, trying to unite them against a common enemy but in the end. All they're doing is hurting the faunus' that want to live peacefully. How many innocent faunus have been the victims of human hate because of the White Fang's actions?

The ram pounces on the shadow ready to grab them. Instead of Velvet, it's a rabbit mannequin for an exhibit. A clanging sound draws their attention, Goodwitch sees the two running for the exit.

"Over there!" Goodwitch points to the two and one of the rams runs after the two.

Jaune is carrying Velvet under his arm and the case in his other hand. He ducks under a barrier and tries to run as fast as he can. But he is slow thanks to carrying Velvet and the case at the same time. As a result, the ram quickly catches up to them and headbutts them into one of the museum's exhibit pits.

Jaune loses his hold on the case and drops it as he and Velvet land in the pit. Goodwitch walks over to the case and retrieves it. Jaune and Velvet groan as they get up.

Goodwitch chuckles unpleasantly as she goes up to the edge of the display pit and looks down at them. "Well, you should have just stayed on the carrot farm, huh? It really is too bad, I… I did like you."

"What are you gonna do? Kill me?" Velvet asked.

Goodwitch chuckles at the notion. "Oh, no, of course not, ha, ha." She takes out the dart gun with an evil grin. "He is!" She said shooting the dart gun at Jaune. The pellet hit Jaune in the neck leaving a blue stain on his fur. He then starts to grunt and groan in pain.

"That bitch!" Velvet yelled at the screen. Coco smiled at her friend, it's refreshing to see this other side of Velvet.

"Yeah." Adrian said agreeing with Vevlet even though he didn't know the meaning of the word. Though he has heard it before from his mothers.

"Should we be concerned that he knows that word?" Terra asked her wife. Emilia is glaring at Saphron and Terra knew better than to get involved and went back to watching the screen.

"Come on, Jaune! Resist it!" Nora shouted at the screen, trying to encourage him through the screen.

"No! Oh, Jaune!" Velvet said going to check on Jaune.

"Yes, police?" Goodwitch said pretending to be on the phone and faking panic. "There's a savage fox in the Natural History Museum! Officer Scarlatina is down! Please hurry!"

"No, Jaune! Don't do this; fight it!" Velvet pleaded as Jaune begins to pant and growl slightly.

"Oh, but he can't help it, can he?" Goodwitch said picking up the case and walking along the edge of the pit. "Since preds are just 'biologically predisposed' to be savages."

Jaune begins to growl loudly and snarl. Velvet looks at Jaune and sees his eyes looking straight at her menacingly. Velvet backs away in fear and starts to run away. Jaune is now on all fours and chases after her, baring his teeth.

Velvet trips and grabs a mannequin deer, she throws it at Jaune to try and slow him down.

Goodwitch laughs evilly as she watches. "Gosh, think of the headlines! 'Hero Cop Killed by Savage Fox!'"

Emilia held Leon's hand tightly. She didn't want to see her son kill someone that he considered a friend.

"I want to kick her right now." Velvet said with narrow eyes. How dare this- this witch hurt someone she cares about.

"Easy, Vel." Coco said putting a hand on her shoulder to calm her down before she jumped at the screen.

Velvet backs up to the wall, gasping in fear as she watches Jaune tear the dummy deer to pieces with his teeth and claws. Then he stares at her.

"So that's it? Prey fears predators and you stay in power?" Velvet asked Goodwitch who is above her.

"Yeah, pretty much." Goodwitch said setting the case down.

"It won't work."

"Fear always works! And I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way." Goodwitch said waving the dart gun.

Velvet looks straight ahead and sees Jaune emerging out of the fake grass, snarling and growling and ready to pounce. Velvet backs up slowly, knowing that she is trapped.

"Oh, Jaune… no…"

Goodwitch sees Jaune closing the distance and chuckles to herself. "Bye-bye, Bunny."

Jaune closes in on the frightened Velvet, and lunges at her. He traps her neck between his jaws. Velvet lets out a blood-curdling scream.

Adrian and the Arc children covered their eyes not wanting to see the scene before them.

"No!" Velvet cried. "That can't happen."

Jaune didn't say anything and held Adrian tightly.

Ruby hugged her sister for comfort.

Goodwitch looks at the scene, satisfied with her own work.

Velvet sticks out her tongue. "Bleugh!" Jaune lets go of her neck and backs away, chuckling at her playful acting. "Blood! Blood! Blood! And… death." Velvet acts the same way as she did in her childhood play. She fakes being dead and lays still.

"All right, you know, you're milking it." Jaune told her after while getting back to his feet. "Besides, I think we got it."

"What?" Nora said confused by what is happening.

Jaune chuckled at the scene and Adrian uncovered his eyes at the sound of his uncle laughing and saw that everyone is ok. "They played her."

"They must have swapped out the serum for something else." Pyrrha said now catching on. "Didn't Jaune have blueberries?"

"You're right." Nora said with a huge smile. "They put blueberries in the gun and faked the rest to get a confession. Genius!"

Goodwitch has a stunned look on her face.

"I think we got it! We got it up there!" Jaune yells at Goodwitch as he helps Velvet stand up. They put their arms around each other. "Thank you, yackety-yak! You laid it all out beautifully!"

"What?" Goodwitch said confused as she looks at the dart gun. Trying to figure out what's wrong with it.

"Yeah, oh, are, are you looking for the serum?" Jaune asks as he pulls the serum pellet out from his shirt pocket and showing it to her. "Well, it's right here."

"What you've got in the weapon there? Those are blueberries." Velvet said pointing to the dart gun. "From my family's farm!"

Goodwitch opens the chamber of the dart gun and sees the pellets have been replaced with blueberries.

"Mwah!" Jaune said kissing his fingers with a smile. "They are delicious, you should try some."

Goodwitch growls furiously while closing the chamber for the dart gun. "I framed Lionheart, I can frame you too!" She adjusts her glasses and puts the dart gun behind her back. "It's my word against yours."

"Ooh! Actually…" Velvet said pulling out the carrot pen and hitting the rewind button and pressing play.

"And I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way."

"… it's your word against yours."

Goodwitch's jaw drops. "Huh?" She said shocked and dumbfounded.

"It's called a hustle, sweetheart. Boom." Velvet said as she and Jaune smile triumphantly.

"Damn, she got hustled." Yang said with laughter and a smile.

"That was great!" Sun said also laughing at the screen.

"That's what you get!" Ruby yelled at the screen.

Even Ozpin smiled at the scene. He hid his smile behind his coffee cup.

"She was overconfident in her plan." Glynda said also smiling at the scene. In a way it reminded her of when she first started off as a huntress, that sense of overconfidence that landed her in plenty of troublesome situations.

Goodwitch turns to run for it only to see the real cop with Chief Ironwood surrounding them. Each of them looking at her with disapproving looks. She drops the dart gun and quickly raises her hand in surrender. The ram does the same.

---

"Former Mayor Glynda Goodwitch is behind bars today, guilty of masterminding the savage attacks that have plagued Zootopia of late." The female news anchor said as the news station shows footage of Goodwitch being escorted through a crowd of photographers. She is wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffed and filled with contempt, and she is scowling as she fixes her glasses.

"Her predecessor, Leonardo Lionheart, denies any knowledge of her plot, claiming he was just trying to protect the city." The male news anchor said as the news station plays the footage of Lionheart in prison being interviewed.

"Did I falsely imprison those animals?" Lionheart told the reporter. "Well, yes. Yes, I did. It was a classic 'doing the wrong thing for the right reason' kind of a deal."

"In related news, doctors say the Night howler antidote is proving effective in rehabilitating the afflicted predators." The female news anchor said.

---

Emmitt is now in a hospital bed instead of his usual room. He slowly wakes up, no longer in his savage state which his wife sees.

"Emmitt? Oh, Emmitt!" Mrs. Otterton says in joy and hugs her husband. She turns to Velvet who is in with them. She is back in her uniform and her leg is healed. "Thank you."

Velvet smiles before leaving the two alone.

---

Velvet is walking through Savanna Central, she sees two children, a giraffe and a predator playing a game of soccer.

"When I was a kid, I thought Zootopia was this perfect place, where everyone got along and anyone could be anything. Turns out, real life is a little bit more complicated than a slogan on a bumper sticker."

Everyone in the room nodded at what Velvet said. They all learned that as they grew up and they make the best of it. No sense in dwelling on what you can't control and instead focus on what you can control.

The kids kick the ball to Velvet and she does a few tricks with the ball before kicking it back to them. The kids laugh and resume their game. Velvet chuckles and resumes her walk back to the ZPD.

"We all have limitations, we all make mistakes, which means – hey, glass half full! – we all have a lot in common."

Velvet enters the ZPD and sees Clawhauser back at his old job and setting his things back out. Two officers come and give him two boxes of doughnuts. He smiles in joy making Velvet in return.

"And the more we try to understand one another, the more exceptional each of us will be."

Velvet is now speaking at the graduation ceremony for the new police recruits.

"But we have to try. So, no matter what type of animal you are; from the biggest elephant, to our first fox." Velvet said pointing to the elephants in the back of the group, they look at each other smiling at being mention. She then points to Jaune who is wearing sunglasses and holding a coffee cup instead of his hat. He is now in a full police uniform.

He lifts his shades and winks at her, making her smile.

"He's going to be a cop." Velvet said with a smile at her crush turning his life around.

"My son is going to be a cop. I'm so proud." Emilia said with exaggerated tears. Leon and the rest of the Arc family laughed at her antics, they knew that she loved to joke around on occasion and make them laugh.

"He becomes the first fox officer, just as she became the first bunny officer." An said happy that Jaune turned his life around.

"Even as a cop, he has his own style." Coco said seeing how Jaune is wearing sunglasses and drinking coffee during a graduation ceremony.

"I implore you – try. Try to make the world a better place." Velvet told the graduates, Jaune removes his shades and looks at Velvet. Soon he is called to the stage where Velvet is holding a case.

She opens the case, revealing a badge and a name tag with Jaune's name on it. She takes the badge out and pins it to Jaune's uniform. She then salutes him, and he returns the salute.

"Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with all of us."

The rest of the police graduates cheer and applaud, throwing their hats in the air.

---

"All right, all right, enough." Ironwood told the officers as they bang their fists on the tables since he enters the bull pen. "Shut it!" He shouts when he reaches the podium, silencing the officers as they sit down. "We have some new recruits with us this morning, including our first fox." He said gesturing to Jaune who is sitting next to Velvet.

"Who cares."

"Ha! You should have your own line of inspirational greeting cards, sir!" Jaune told the Chief, he has the top button of his uniform undone, allowing him to breathe.

"Shut your mouth, Arc!" Ironwood told him as the other officers laugh at Jaune's joke. "Assignments: Officers Brawnwen, Xio Long, Rose – Tundratown SWAT." The officers stand and leave. "Port, Oobleck, Torchwick – undercover."

Port puts on a fake mustache, Oobleck puts on a hat, and Torchwick zips up his sheep costume and pulls the hood over his head. Torchwick now looks like a sheep. The three officers get up and leave.

"Ha, wolf in sheep's clothing." Neptune said seeing Torchwick in his disguise for his undercover assignment.

"Maybe I should dye my mustache." Peter said upon seeing his counterpart dark mustache. "It would make me feel young again."

"You would then have a dyed mustache and your grey hair." Bart pointed out. "Two different hair colors."

"I once knew a man what had such a color scheme." Peter said. "He had brown hair and an almost black mustache. People noticed it but none pointed it out."

"I would." Yang said and everyone knew she would. Yang is the type to always point something out.

"Scarlatina, Arc…" Ironwood said looking at the two. "Parking duty. Dismissed."

Jaune and Velvet look at the Chief shocked that they are getting stuck with parking duty. Then Ironwood grins at them.

"Just kidding! We have reports of a street racer tearing up Savannah Central. Find him. Shut him down." Ironwood told them.

"Never thought Ol' Jimmy would have a sense of humor." Qrow said leaning in his seat.

"Then you don't know much about me." James said looking at Qrow. It was true, Qrow didn't know much about james aside from the few times he met the man. His impression is that James Ironwood has a stick up his ass and refuses to remove it. Always serious about everything and doesn't have much humor in him.

"You need to work on that humor." Willow said with a smirk at James.

Winter saw the way her mother looked at Ironwood.

Jaune and Velvet are driving a large police SUV. Velvet is behind the wheel while Jaune is looking at the passing people, and eating a popsicle.

"So, are all rabbits bad drivers or is it just you?" Jaune asked licking the frozen treat. Velvet hits the brake suddenly, making Jaune lunge forward. Turns out they are at a red stop light.

"Oops. Sorry." Velvet said with a deadpan voice. Jaune gets up with the popsicle stuck to his face, he pulls it off with a grunt and chuckles.

"Sly bunny."

"Dumb fox." Velvet said watching the road.

Everyone smiled at the friendship between Jaune and Velvet. It reminded them of their own friends that they made over the years.

"You know you love me." Jaune said waving the popsicle in her direction, grinning.

"Do I know that?" Velvet asks pretending to think before smiling at Jaune. "Yes. Yes, I do."

The traffic light turns green and the SUV moves forward, when a red sports car with tinted windows zooms past them. Jaune and Velvet look at the car and smile at each other, Jaune puts on his shades and turns on the sirens. Velvet floors the gas and the SUV chases after the car.

The sports car stops and license plate reads "FST MNL".

Velvet and Jaune walk up to the car.

"Sir, you were going 115 miles per hour, I hope you have a good explanation." Velvet said walking up to the driver side window which lowers, revealing Ren. He is looking at them nervously.

"Ren!" Jaune, Nora, and Pyrrha all said at once. They were surprised that Ren is the one racing. The usually calm and reserved Ren, a street racer.

"Hehe, a sloth driving a sports car." Yang said chuckling at the scene.

"Ren, Ren, my main man." Jaune said both surprised and amused as he removes his shades. Ren looks at Jaune and slowly smiles.

"Jaaaaune…"

The screen fades to black and comes back, showing Gazelle throwing a concert.

"Good evening, Zootopia!" Gazelle said to the crowd as they cheer her name and her song "Try Everything" starts to play. "Come on, everybody, put your paws up!"

Gazelle starts singing as the tiger dancers dance beside her.

---

Clawhauser is watching from the front row with a huge grin, and glowing with excitement.

Jaune and Velvet watch from their own row. Velvet is dancing while Jaune stands still, she bumps him with her hip and he starts dancing.

"He even dances like our Jaune." Nora said seeing how he just moves his arms and shuffles back and forth.

"Clawhauser gets to see Gazelle in person." Velvet said while moving to beat of the music. She rarely listened to music but found herself enjoying the music.

Ren and Nora are slowly dancing.

Mr. Big and his pregnant daughter are moving their heads to the beat. Their guards also nod with the beat.

"Put your paws in the air, come on!" Gazelle told the crowd and they do so.

Yang couldn't help it and raised her arms above her head moving to beat.

Jaune tried not to stare since her movement had interesting effects.

Ruby bobbed her head to music.

Yak, from The Mystic Spring Oasis is groove dancing.

Clawhauser and Ironwood dance next to each other.

From prison, the concert is being shown on a small TV, where a guard is keeping watch on the prisoners. Glynda Goodwitch is sitting between two large prisoners. She has a scowl on her face and her arms are crossed. The prisoners tap their knees to the beat and Goodwitch looks at them annoyed.

Adrian laughed at the scene and moved his head side to side as the music continued to play.

Nora and Pyrrha moved to music and smiled at Jaune as he joined them and even moved Adrian with him.

Ren tapped his foot to music. He found it enjoyable and wouldn't mind listening it to again later.

"Shake your tails with me, come on! Yeah!" Gazelle said before dancing along with the backup dancers.

Ironwood dances like he owns the dance floor.

Clawhauser dances on his own.

In prison, Goodwitch notices one of the prisoners is touching her wool and she swats his hand away and continues to brood in silence.

Will and Meg are dancing the do-si-do.

Yak is laid back and just enjoys himself. A fellow concert goer is disgusted by his smell and lack of clothes.

In prison, Lionheart is reading a cat magazine and conversing with the guards.

Emmit and his wife are dancing together. Emmitt twirls his wife and dips her, making her smile.

Duke Weaselton is dancing until he sees money that is hanging out from the back pocket of a concert goer. He then dances up to the person and slyly takes the money and quietly dances away.

Weiss shakes her head at his actions but doesn't say anything as she enjoying the music. The singer Gazelle has a really good voice. It made her want to try singing again, this time for herself instead of for an audience.

Blake tapped her fingers to the music and even her cat ears wiggled a little.

Gazelle sings the final notes of "Try Everything" as the tigers dance around her. They do the final pose as the song ends and the stage lights fade. The crowd cheer and applaud as fireworks light up the night sky.

The screen faded to black and the lights came back one.

"That was great. I enjoyed it." Jaune said setting Adrian back on his legs. "Definitely needed that after the last one."

"How bout I take him. Give you a break." Saphron said to Jaune holding her arms out. Jaune handed Adrian back to his mother. "Did you also enjoy it?" She asked her son.

Adrian nodded his head and showed her his plushie.

"I like the budding cop story of Velvet and Jaune." Sun said being a fan of the cop genre. "It was also cool to see Velvet admit her faults instead of hiding them."

"I like how it showed important social issues and didn't force them down your throat." Blake said seeing similarities to the faunus.

"Glad you enjoyed it." Spart said from his position. "The next viewing will start after the break. I think some could use it."

Jaune agreed since his leg fell asleep and he needed to use the restroom.

Everyone got out and left the theater to use the restrooms and stretch their legs.

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A/N: This one was fun to write and also the longest. In regards to Nora remembering her past, in a way she reminds me Historia from Attack on Titan. Both had shitty childhoods and both never really got the help to deal with the issues that came from that. Nora cheerful attitude seems to me like she is trying to cheer those around her up in an effort to not remember her past. This is also suggested in her back story.

This makes sense to me because the trauma she suffered due to her childhood and who knows what else happened to her and Ren after they escaped the destruction of the village. I doubt that they would've sought out help from a therapist and so just decided to hide the pain and focus on surviving.

Personal opinion is that Ren didn't know how to deal with Nora and so just used his semblance to help hide the pain she felt. Obliviously this wouldn't be healthy for her since the pain is still there and most likely still fresh since she never talked about it. Again, personal opinion.

As for Velvet and the whole dropping out is because the bullying and racist comments. It's safe to assume that Cardin isn't the only person in Beacon that bully Velvet. Velvet most likely would have been bullied during her time at Beacon when she isn't with her team. Either from her faunus heritage or from her being shy and having her team stand up for her. Over time this can build up and lead to dangerous outcomes. Hence, why I decided to have Velvet consider dropping out.

Hopefully this answers some of the questions I expect to be asked regarding Nora and Velvet in this chapter.

Anyway stay safe during these trying times and see everyone in 2021.

Next chapter will be out when I'm finished.

Take care everyone.

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